AV1611 Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV1611 Posted September 19, 2008 Author Share Posted September 19, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steviewdr Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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