Modified /dev/null by MailScanner?

den gon n3dlinux at gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 12:04:22 CET 2007


On 1/16/07, den gon <n3dlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply Glenn. I don't have any /dev/null on my MailScanner
> and spamassassin directories. But I have a /dev/null on my /etc/mail/aliases
> to forward all the pseudo accounts. I have two mail system using old
> mailscanner ( MailScanner-4.39.6-1) and new mail server with
> MailScanner-4.55.10-3. Both them have the same config at
> /etc/mail/aliases, but the old mail server does'nt have error " -bash:
> /dev/null: Permission denied". And in time to time I'm trying to change
> permission of /dev/null of my new mail, but it keeps on changing. What do
> you think?
>
> On 1/16/07, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 16/01/07, den gon <n3dlinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi again to all,
> > >
> > > I noticed that when I login on my system using non-root account, its
> > says
> > > "-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied". I checked it permission and it
> > owned
> > > by
> > > root and smmsp. Is it the MailScanner/sendmail process changed it?
> > >
> > > "-rw-------    1 root     smmsp       23448 Jan 16 10:35 /dev/null"
> > >
> > > admin at server's password:
> > > Last login: Tue Jan 16 10:10:38 2007 from x.x.x.x
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > -bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
> > > [admin at server admin]$ su -
> > > Password:
> > > [root at server root]#
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > ned
> > >
> > Theoretically, depending on your MailScanner.conf, why... Yes, it
> > actually might be.
> > The only one that can check that is you (by reading your
> > configurations;-).
> > grep for /dev/null in both your MailScanner.conf and your
> > /etc/mail/spamassassin directories... and see if anything ... pops
> > out:-).
> >
> > --
> > -- Glenn
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