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Authored by: Anonymous on May 28, '02 09:53:59AM

Remounting the disk after removing group write permissions is certainly not the correct solution. Using chmod should fix the problem.

Even more important than the technique used to restore permissions are the permissions themselves. 777 (rwxrwxrwx) is a bad idea. In most Unices, / has 755 root.wheel permissions (or similar). However, MacOS X does things quite a bit different than most other Unices in their out-of-the-box setup.

Sendmail can be convinced to run even if it disagrees with the permissions on your UNIX machine. If you aren't sure as to what or why the permissions are set the way they are on /, /etc, /var/mail, etc. (sendmail doesn't stop with just /), this might be a safer answer. To convince sendmail, simply uncomment the DontBlameSendmail line in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.



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