Modified /dev/null by MailScanner?

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 16 12:36:55 CET 2007


On 16/01/07, 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 it. What do
> you think?
>
>
Just chown it (back to) root.root and chmod it to 0666 and you should
be fine. If it happens again, well... then you should perhaps be
looking at what tampers with it:-).

Cheers
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-- Glenn
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