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

["Rich LaBo" <rlabo@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] After moving /usr to /home.....


> "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.
>
Thanks for the quick reply Steve.

I checked the permissions and below is what I see. Nothing has group
writable permission, yet still getting the error.

drwxr-xr-x  16 root     root         1024 Jan 25 11:49 home
drwxr-xr-x  26 root     root         1024 Jan 25 15:27 /home/usr
drwxr-xr-x  30 root     root         8192 Aug 27 10:21 /home/usr/lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  1  2000 /home/usr/lib/sasl

-rw-r--r--   1 bin      bin            42 Jun 17  2000 Sendmail.conf
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          702 May 17  2000 libanonymous.la
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Jan 25 11:58 libanonymous.so ->
libanonymous.so.1.0.14
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Jan 25 11:58 libanonymous.so.1 ->
libanonymous.so.1.0.14
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        42531 May 17  2000
libanonymous.so.1.0.14
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          690 May 17  2000 libcrammd5.la
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           20 Jan 25 11:58 libcrammd5.so ->
libcrammd5.so.1.0.14
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           20 Jan 25 11:58 libcrammd5.so.1 ->
libcrammd5.so.1.0.14
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        53704 May 17  2000 libcrammd5.so.1.0.14
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          702 May 17  2000 libdigestmd5.la
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Jan 25 11:58 libdigestmd5.so ->
libdigestmd5.so.0.0.15
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Jan 25 11:58 libdigestmd5.so.0 ->
libdigestmd5.so.0.0.15
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        95960 May 17  2000
libdigestmd5.so.0.0.15
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root          692 May 17  2000 libplain.la
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Jan 25 11:58 libplain.so ->
libplain.so.1.0.13
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Jan 25 11:58 libplain.so.1 ->
libplain.so.1.0.13
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        44942 May 17  2000 libplain.so.1.0.13