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Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP service failure...
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] SMTP service failure...
- From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Apr 29 12:20:01 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
"Bayhawk" <bayhawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> out of the blue, my SMTP services quit working..
>
> When i try a restart i get this:
>
> [root init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Setting up Mail Service: sendmail451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line
83:
> fileclass: cannot open /etc/mail/local-host-names: Group writable
directory
> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 485: fileclass: cannot open
> /etc/mail/trusted-users: Group writable directory
>
>
> I have tried replacing sendmail.cf files.... Didn't work
> I tried 777 the 2 file sin question...
The "group writable" error is telling you *not* to have that directory group
writable. IIRC, /etc/mail should be chmod 755. For security reasons
sendmail is paranoid and chokes when it notices it has files in a group
writable directory.
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Steve Werby
President, Befriend Internet Services LLC
http://www.befriend.com/