HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator's Guide

Configuring and Administering Sendmail
Troubleshooting Sendmail
Chapter 2 105
How to Resolve the Warning Messages
To resolve these warning messages, run the following command:
# chmod 600 /etc/mail/sendmail.st
Now, if you execute the mailstats utility, the warning messages do not
appear.
The newaliases Utility
newaliases rebuilds the database for the mail aliases file. If you run the
newaliases utility with root user permission, the following warning
messages might appear:
# newaliases
warning: /etc/mail/aliases has world read or write
permission. This is unsafe.
warning: /etc/mail/aliases.db has world read or write
permission. This is unsafe.
/etc/mail/aliases: 7 aliases, longest 9 bytes, 88 bytes total
How to Resolve the Warning Messages
To resolve the warning messages, run the following command:
# chmod 640 /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/aliases.db
Now, if you execute the newaliases utility, the warning messages do not
appear.
M msgsfr bytes_from msgsto bytes_to msgsrej msgsdis Mailer
0 0 0K 46 47K 0 0 prog
3 41 43K 56 57K 0 0 local
5 49 51K 34 34K 0 0 esmtp
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T 90 94K 136 138K 0 0
C 90 136 0