[TriLUG] /etc/group

[Mike Johnson]

Jeff Bollinger [jeff01 at email.unc.edu] wrote:
 
> My Sendmail error is as follows:
> 
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 85: fileclass:
> cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
> 451 4.0.0 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 510: fileclass: cannot open
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory

That doesn't sound like it has a thing to do with your /etc/group
file.  It's telling you it doesn't like the permissions of your
/etc/mail directory.  Make sure your /etc/mail isn't group
writable:
# ls -al /etc/mail
total 72
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Oct 24 13:22 .
drwxr-xr-x   48 root     root         4096 Oct 24 16:31 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          345 Mar  3  2001 access
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Oct 24 13:22 access.db
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar  3  2001 domaintable
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Oct 24 13:22 domaintable.db
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5573 Mar  3  2001 helpfile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           64 Mar  3  2001 local-host-names
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar  3  2001 mailertable
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Oct 24 13:22 mailertable.db
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          611 Mar  3  2001 Makefile
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2220 Mar  3  2001 sendmail.mc
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          133 Oct 24 13:22 trusted-users
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Mar  3  2001 virtusertable
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        12288 Oct 24 13:22 virtusertable.db

Easily fixed if your's isn't like the above:
chmod 0755 /etc/mail

Mike
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