Re: Strange Sendmail Error

On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 14:29, 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.
> 
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on redhat... /var/spool/mail would normally be chmod 775 - so it is not
world writable. I don't know where sendmail would spool the mail to on
OSX - it may be the same path, it may not. The db files that were
referred to in your error messages indicated that it was troubled by the
permissions on the files/folder at /etc/mail but perhaps it is troubled
only by the mail spool folder or possibly the mqueue folder
(/var/spool/mqueue) which curiously on my redhat system has permissions
of 755

Craig


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