SendMail Error Message

[Jonathan Chen]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:03:08AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> For no apparent reason, the following error message is suddenly appearing 
> on my computer monitor.
> 
> # Jul  4 07:48:31 beerstud sm-mta[5876]: j64BIV2C005802: SYSERR(root): 
> hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/mail/aliases.db: World writable 
> directory
> 
> I checked, and the directory is set at 0755. I never altered it or 
> anything, so why is it suddenly giving me this message? In addition, what 
> do I have to do to correct the situation?

You have to check /etc/mail AND /etc AND /. All the way to the top.

Cheers.
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