Good morning, James,
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, James Nonya wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 10:15:35 -0500 (EST)
> "William Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, James Nonya wrote:
> >
> > > I'm running Slackware 8.1 which comes with perl
> 5.6.1.
> > > I've been running spamd just fine since 2.55 was
> > > released. I compile and install SA 2.60 and all
> goes
> > > well. When I try to start spamd here's what I
> get:
> > >
> > > Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running
> with -T
> > > switch at /usr/lib/perl5/Cwd.pm line 92.
> > >
> > > I am running spamd as user filter (running this
> setup
> > > ->
> > >
> http://www.advosys.ca/papers/postfix-filtering.html).
> > > Filter has:
> > >
> > > /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin set as the $PATH.
> Anyone
> > > have any leads on why this is happening and how I
> can
> > > fix it?
> >
> > I would _guess_ that one of the directories in your
> path is either
> > 1) owned by a non-root user or group, or 2) writable
> by someone other than
> > root, neither of which is safe. This might include:
> > /bin
> > /usr
> > /usr/bin
> > /usr/local
> > /usr/local/bin
> >
>
> Thanks for the quick reply :) /bin, /usr/bin, and
> /usr/local/bin were set at root:bin (I have NO idea
> why). I set this to root:root but still have the same
> issue...could this be a perl/spamassassin
> compatability issue? Thanks!
Did you check the modes on _all 5_ of those components as well?
They should be neither group nor world writable. (For any readers that
may not know how to check, run this:
ls -Ald /bin /usr /usr/bin /usr/local /usr/local/bin
The left hand column of every line will start with flags that are
something like:
-rwxr-xr-x
The space between the second r and the second x, and the space
between the third r and the third x should both be dashes instead of w's.
-rwxr-xr-x
^ ^
James, you might also see if the spamassassin files you installed
are owned by anything other than root.root, or are writeable by anythone
other than root. How about /etc/mail? /etc/mail/spamassassin? /sbin?
/usr/sbin? Are all the users' home directories owned by themselves, and
not writable by anyone else?
Cheers,
- Bill
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