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Re: Alias to file or program

To: tom@haven.uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius)
Subject: Re: Alias to file or program
From: Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 01:50:49 +0200 (EET)
Cc: zmailer@nic.funet.fi
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950208154348.916A-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Feb 8, 95 03:49:19 pm

>   I want to set up an alias like:
> 
> nobody:  /dev/null
> 
> ..but it doesn't work.  It says, "mail to file disallowed w/o 
> priviledges".  What sort of priviledges do I need?  I've read man pages 
> to no avail....

	Either your file containing the aliases ($MAILSHARE/db/aliases)
	has wider permissions, than 644, or the directory has wider
	permissions, than 755, or directory owner is not root...
	("directory" = $MAILSHARE/db/)

> Tom

	/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>

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