Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 11:58, Steven Vishoot wrote:

i am having problems with sendmail when i am trying to restart it. this morning i woke up and found it not working and when i tried restarting it belched out these errors at me.

[root@dusty init.d]# ./sendmail start Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory

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now what am i missing.

Reading the error message... chmod g-w /etc/mail ..and do an ls -ld /etc/mail to make sure the owner and other permissions are sane.

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 /