Article:		Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar
Subject:		chmod g-w ... vs. appropriate sendmail setting
Date:		2002-08-31 09:57:50
From:		fuerst
Why are you not editing /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and enabling/adding the line O DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe to it? Looks a little bit cleaner than running chmod via crontab... Bernhard

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• Simple Answer: Security
  2002-08-31 11:06:04  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  I did it this way as it is the most secure way to run Sendmail. However, there many issues to consider when running Sendmail on your machine. These will be covered in an upcoming article.
  
  In that article, I'll talk about the DontBlameSendmail properrty and how best to set it-along with a lot of other configuration knobs that you can tweak in Sendmail.