bin/63480: /etc/mail/aliases has executable bit set, newaliases doesn't work

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Feb 28 13:40:12 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR bin/63480; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Toni Viemero <toni.viemero at iki.fi>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/63480: /etc/mail/aliases has executable bit set, newaliases doesn't work
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:36:20 -0800

 On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 10:47:47AM +0200, Toni Viemero wrote:
 
 > 	FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE clean install
 > 
 > 	fluid# newaliases
 > 	newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: Executable files not allowed
 
 How did you install?  I see
 
 kkenn at enigma:~ ls -l /etc/mail/aliases
 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1578 May 16  2003 /etc/mail/aliases
 
 Also, in the i386 installation distribution set I see
 
 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel     1578 Feb 23 11:42 2004 ./etc/mail/aliases
 
 Kris


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