sendmail config problem

farid_lmu · 03-24-2009, 01:31 PM

hello I just installed sendmail from fedora 10 server package.
When I write /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail in command mode than the following problem happens:

[root@localhost farid]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 87: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 594: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

could anyone please tell me what I've to do in here, though I didn't
configure anything in sendmail here.

Any idea/suggestion will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

bathory · 03-24-2009, 04:10 PM

You should run

Code:

chmod 755 /etc/mail

to remove the world writalbe attribute from /etc/mail

farid_lmu · 04-02-2009, 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

You should run

Code:

chmod 755 /etc/mail

to remove the world writalbe attribute from /etc/mail

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Hello bathory thanks anyway for your suggestions. But the problem is that I couldn't solve it yet now. I tried according to your idea. But it shows the same error again.

Any more idea/suggestions would be most welcome.

thanks indeed.

bathory · 04-02-2009, 08:05 AM

If running

Code:

ls -l /etc/mail

you find that the affected files have the correct permissions, take a look at this post and do the appropriate changes in sendmail.cf (Fw-o instead of Fw)

Regards