Re: [cobalt-users] After moving /usr to /home.....

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Rich LaBo" <rlabo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After moving /usr to /home I am receiving the following lines in my
logcheck
> files.  Can anyone shed some light please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
> Jan 25 13:00:08 tma1 sendmail[3049]: error:
> safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf) failed: Group writable directory

Sendmail complains if any directory containing a file it needs to access has
group writable privileges.  That includes any parent directory above the
directory it's trying to access.  So I suspect either your /home is group
writable or /usr/lib/sasl, /usr/lib or /usr is.  Check all of those.  If any
are group writable turn off the group writable bit.  Unless you're confident
you understand the ramifications make sure you back everything up first.

chmod g-w path_to/directory will turn off the group-writable bit.
Alternately, you can tell Sendmail to ignore group writable directories in
sendmail.cf, but I advise against that.

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