sendmail error

[AV1611]

sendmail not starting

 

decided to install sendmail on my fedora 9 so I can use a mail form.

 

here's what I did:

 

1. yum install sendmail sendmail-cf

 

[root@host etc]# service sendmail start

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 598: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

[FAILED]

 

2.  [root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/trusted-users

[root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/local-host-names

 

[root@host etc]# service sendmail start

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 598: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

                                                          [FAILED]

 

so,

 

[root@host mail]# ls -la

total 208

drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2008-09-19 12:06 .

drwxr-xr-x 137 root root 12288 2008-09-19 12:06 ..

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   469 2008-03-29 05:27 access

-rw-r-----   1 root root 12288 2008-09-19 12:06 access.db

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   233 2008-03-29 05:27 domaintable

-rw-r-----   1 root root 12288 2008-09-19 12:06 domaintable.db

-r--r--r--   1 root root  5584 2008-03-29 05:27 helpfile

-rwx------   1 root root    64 2008-03-29 05:27 local-host-names

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   997 2008-03-29 05:27 mailertable

-rw-r-----   1 root root 12288 2008-09-19 12:06 mailertable.db

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1048 2008-03-29 05:27 Makefile

-rw-r--r--   1 root root 58624 2008-03-29 05:27 sendmail.cf

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  7205 2008-03-29 05:27 sendmail.mc

-r--r--r--   1 root root 41706 2008-03-29 05:27 submit.cf

-rw-r--r--   1 root root   941 2008-03-29 05:27 submit.mc

-rwx------   1 root root   127 2008-03-29 05:27 trusted-users

-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1847 2008-03-29 05:27 virtusertable

-rw-r-----   1 root root 12288 2008-09-19 12:06 virtusertable.db

[root@host mail]#

 

As you can see the error message is not true. those files are certainly NOT world writeable.

 

Help?

 

 

[steviewdr]

I'd try:

 

chmod 644 /etc/mail/local-host-names

chmod 644 /etc/mail/trusted-users

 

-steve

 

P.S. I use postfix which I much prefer over sendmail.

 

 

[AV1611]

I'd try:

 

chmod 644 /etc/mail/local-host-names

chmod 644 /etc/mail/trusted-users

 

-steve

 

P.S. I use postfix which I much prefer over sendmail.

 

 

I did

2.  [root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/trusted-users

[root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/local-host-names

 

would have thought that was the solution... but I guess postfix it is.

I love postfix, but this server is my development server, not my hosting one...  so I didn't wanna do that but oh well...

 

you would think that yum via livna it woulda just worked. go figure.

 

[steviewdr]

I'd try:

 

chmod 644 /etc/mail/local-host-names

chmod 644 /etc/mail/trusted-users

 

I did

2.  [root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/trusted-users

[root@host etc]# chmod u=rwx,g=,o= /etc/mail/local-host-names

 

Not the same thing. It looks to me like sendmail can't read trusted-users or local-host-names as it might not be running as root or there could be selinux stuff going on.

 

-steve