Re: Strange Sendmail Error

Try

http://www.sendmail.org/tips/DontBlameSendmail.html

It explains how to test, correct and even how to bypass the security checks...

Ed

At 07:29 AM Monday, 7/1/2002, Terry Allen wrote -=>
> >On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 02:47, Terry Allen wrote:
> >> Hi again,
> >>      This is quite bizarre - I have been beavering away & thought I had
> >> the OSX server just about right, but when I went to start sendmail 
> just now
> >> (only found out when I looked at the status of sendmail), I get the
> >> following errors:
> >>
> >>
> >> # /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
> >> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 72: fileclass: cannot open
> >> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World Writable Directory
> >> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 126: fileclass: cannot open
> >> '/etc/mail/canonify-domains': World Writable Directory
> >>
> >>      I've tried setting the permissions via chmod go-w & chown to both
> >> files & directories, but that hasn't helped. Can anybody suggest anything?
> >> I've looked around the Sendmail site, but can't see anything much related
> >> that's helped.
> >>
> >----
> >chmod -R 644 /etc/mail
> >
> >Craig
> >
> Hi again,
>         Well, I just did that & still get that same error - any other ideas
> - I did try setting the same perms on the /etc directory too.
>  Rerunning the iTools (which includes Sendmail) installer got it running 
> again.

Ed Kasky
Los Angeles, CA
. . . . . . . .
I do visit reality although it's on a tourist visa.



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