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RHEL5 SendMail Errors - please help me at your convenience.

have following problem related to sendmail.
If anybody have solution on this problem plz reply me on
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Server OS : Red hat Enterprise Linux 5
sendmail packages : sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
sendmail-8.13.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
sendmail-devel-8.13.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
sendmail-cf-8.13.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
sendmail-doc-8.13.8-2.el5.i386.rpm
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[root@server ~]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions
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 587: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
[FAILED]
Starting sm-client: /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 544: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
[FAILED]
[root@server ~]#
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Reply Me soon.

Regards
BatMAN

Quote:

Originally Posted by hhh123 (Post 3652374)

the permissions do not look right on the /etc/mail directory.

what are they, and those of the files inside?

Quote:

Originally Posted by hhh123 (Post 3652374)

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Please start a new thread for your problem, instead of highjacking this one.
Thank you

hhh123,

I have moved your hijacks to a new thread of your own. Please do not interject your issue into someone else' existing thread in the future.
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Best of success with your issue,
Sasha

The error message makes you think that permissions on /etc/mail are too loose, but a google search shows that the same error message appears when one of the parent directories has the same problem with its permissions. So check them all. Here is what I have on my CentOS system:

Code:

[root@machine ~]# ls -ld / /etc/ /etc/mail

drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jul 31 15:16 //

drwxr-xr-x 77 root root 4096 Aug 19 04:02 /etc//

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov 14  2007 /etc/mail/