sendmail problems errors

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 11:58, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> i am having problems with sendmail when i am trying to restart it.
> this morning i woke up and found it not working and when i tried
> restarting it belched out these errors at me.
> 
> [root@dusty init.d]# ./sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91:
> fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable
> directory
> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> now what am i missing.

Reading the error message... 
chmod g-w /etc/mail
..and do an ls -ld /etc/mail to make sure the owner and
other permissions are sane.

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