Hi,

When giving the command "service sendmail start" to start the sendmail on Redhat 3.0, encountering the following error.

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 571: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory
[FAILED]

The persmission on /etc/mail is 755, and for /etc/mail/local-host-names and /etc/mail/trusted-users is 644.

Another Redhat 3.0 server having the same Sendmail RPM seems to start sendmail properly.

Please help, with resolving this issue with starting the sendmail service.

Thanks,

Vinith

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Remove write permissions for 'other users' from the two files, then try to start sendmail again.

Hi,

Thanks for the help. But, even after removing Write permission for other users, on these 2 files, it gives the same error.

Also, current rpm level for sendmail is as follows-
rpm -qa|grep -i sendmail
sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1
sendmail-8.12.11-4.RHEL3.1

Any Other suggestion to resolve this issue.

Thanks,

Vinith

Please show us how the permissions of the files look like now.

Hi,

The permission of the files in /etc/mail is pasted below-
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 331 Jun 30 2004 access
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Apr 13 20:21 access.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 30 2004 domaintable
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Apr 13 20:21 domaintable.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5588 Jun 30 2004 helpfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Jun 30 2004 local-host-names
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 30 2004 mailertable
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Apr 13 20:21 mailertable.db
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1032 Jun 30 2004 Makefile
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57535 Apr 13 20:21 sendmail.cf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5978 Jun 30 2004 sendmail.mc
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 20:21 spamassassin
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 628 Apr 13 20:21 statistics.rpmsave
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39181 Jun 30 2004 submit.cf
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 952 Jun 30 2004 submit.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jun 30 2004 trusted-users
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 30 2004 virtusertable
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12288 Apr 13 20:21 virtusertable.db


Thanks

I am having exactly the same problem and error as Vcvinith. Have you been able to resolve the problem yourself? If anyone knows why this is happening, would really appreciate your help. I am using Redhat 9.

I believe I found the solution on another thread. Try also making /etc have permissions of 755 so it is the same as /etc/mail. I made this change and sendmail started without any errors.