sendmail stooped working complains about cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users
 

hi without any reason my sendmail stooped working :

[root@Elena ~]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory
[FAILED]
Starting sm-client: /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 544: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory
[FAILED]
[root@Elena ~]# test |mail -s "test" elnegro8@hotmail.com

Null message body; hope that's ok
/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 544: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

[root@Elena ~]# ll -l /etc/mail/
total 244
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 355 Mar 15 2007 access
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Jul 3 22:00 access.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 15 2007 domaintable
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Jul 3 22:00 domaintable.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5521 Mar 15 2007 helpfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Mar 15 2007 local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 15 2007 mailertable
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Jul 3 22:00 mailertable.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1048 Mar 15 2007 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58194 Jul 3 22:00 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7209 Mar 15 2007 sendmail.mc
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 41275 Mar 15 2007 submit.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 940 Mar 15 2007 submit.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Mar 15 2007 trusted-users
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 15 2007 virtusertable
-rw-r----- 1 root root 12288 Jul 3 22:00 virtusertable.db


any idea

Why did you start a new thread? This is the same issue as http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...screen-658365/

Did you follow the last advice given on that thread?

Reported for closure

sorry my mistake i didn't find the thread