SUMMARY: .forward broken

Thanks to Darren Dunham for the quick response, it was directory
permission, ie. the /home/u was at 777, chmod 755 fixed the problem.
I only checked the /home/u/user1 not the upper /home/u directory.


- Mike

---------- original message ----------

~$ grep Forward sendmail.cf
# Forward file search path
O ForwardPath=$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward

Below commands was recommended, directory/file permission below seems ok???
Sendmail README seems to say file permission...

Why is it that I'm getting "World writable directory" when I can't even
cd in the "user1" directory???

~$ /usr/lib/sendmail -v user1@sky.net < 1.txt
user1@sky.net... forward: /home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar+: World writable
directory
user1@sky.net... forward: /home/u/user1/.forward+: World writable
directory
user1@sky.net... forward: /home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar: World writable
directory
user1@sky.net... forward: /home/u/user1/.forward: World writable
directory
user1@sky.net... Connecting to local...
user1@sky.net... Sent


~$ /usr/lib/sendmail -d27.4 -oi -t <<END
> to: user1@sky.net
> subject: test test
> test test
> END
aliaswait(implicit:/etc/mail/aliases)
aliaswait(implicit:/etc/mail/aliases)
alias(user1)
forward(user1@sky.net)
forward: trying /home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar+
include(/home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar+)
   ruid=101 euid=0
include: not safe (uid=109): World writable directory
forward: trying /home/u/user1/.forward+
include(/home/u/user1/.forward+)
   ruid=101 euid=0
include: not safe (uid=109): World writable directory
forward: trying /home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar
include(/home/u/user1/.forward.pulsar)
   ruid=101 euid=0
include: not safe (uid=109): World writable directory
forward: trying /home/u/user1/.forward
include(/home/u/user1/.forward)
   ruid=101 euid=0
include: not safe (uid=109): World writable directory

the "user1" account .forward contains /dev/null --yes, I want all mail
to this account to forward to /dev/null.  Not sure where I need to
troubleshoot, some searches return that I should look at directory and
file permission for /home/u/user1 and .forward file...both looks normal.

~$ ls -ld /home/u/user1
drwx--l---  11 user1   users       4096 Mar 17 16:19 /home/u/user1/

~$ ls -l .forward
-rw-r--r--   1 root     users         10 Jun 13  2002 .forward
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