[Esa-l] Sanitizer : shell-init: could not get current directory

Phil Pennock pdp at nl.demon.net
Sun Nov 12 22:02:09 PST 2000


On 2000-11-12 at 15:22 -0500, Michael H. Martel wrote:
> > means that the user who is receiving the message has no permission to
> > read or traverse the directory that the shell script is starting up
> > in, or the parents of that directory.
> 
> Yep.
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  67 root     root         5120 Nov  3 05:43 /etc
> drwxrwxr-x   2 root     root         1024 Nov 12 06:40 /etc/procmail

Please try:
 ls -ld  / /tmp

First should be drwxr-xr-x, second should be drwxrwxrwt.

If they're fine, check the sendmail logs for error messages about
changing directory.
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