Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 15:11, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> > 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot
> open
> > '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>

> But my directory for mail has always been:
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 10 11:57 /etc/mail
>
> and the two files affected have been:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Feb 17 2005 local-host-names
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Feb 17 2005 trusted-users
>
> if i do not get this fixed i am not too worried at the moment, since i
> will be reinstalling the system as soon i receive my other sata cable.
> To make this system a software raid then. But i thought i would throw
> this out to see if anyone would know...unless the error it is throwing
> out is not the correct error, then i have no idea what wo uld be
> wrong.

There are 2 directories above, and any that are
writable will trigger the error. Try:
ls -ld /etc
and
ls -ld /

--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com


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thanks Les,

my root had a group writeable somehow. now sendmail works like a charm..

thanks again