Re: Sendmail Error

[John Haxby <jch samsungcontact com>]

My wild, off the cuff, instant-reaction, guess would be that you've set 
a user up with a home directory of "/dev/null".    Try changing it to a 
non-existant directory ...

jch

Christos E. Chrisostomidis wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> I am running sendmail (8.12.8-5) on a RH9.0 box
> and I have recently found the following error in the maillog:
>
> Forwarding errors:
>    /dev/null/.forward: World writable directory: 18 Times(s)
>
>
> The permissions in /dev/null are rw-rw-rw-
>
> Have anyone any idea what this could be ?????
>
> Best Regards
> Christos
>
>
>
>
>
>