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 at 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 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 at gmail.com