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Re: [milter-greylist] World writable directory

2005-10-07 by Dawn Keenan

> Getting a "Xgreylist: local socket name
> /var/milter-greylist/milter-greylist.sock unsafe: World writable
> directory" error when trying to start sendmail.
> 
> My permissions for the directory is:
> [root@LINUX var]# ls -lda milter-greylist
> drwxr-x---  2 root wheel 4096 Oct  7 10:55 milter-greylist

What are the permissions on the / and /var directories?  Sendmail
checks permissions on all directory components, though it doesn't
tell you which directory level is the problem.

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