Hi Barry, The current permission of "/etc/mail" directory is rwxr-xr-x. It's kinda weird because I didn't touch it before. Thanks for your reply. Regards, James On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, James Corteciano wrote: > > Hi All, >> >> I have strange behaviour of sendmail. I have installed fresh vanilla of >> RHEL >> 5.5 and able to send test mail outside. After less than 6 hours, this is >> the >> error I got. >> >> # /etc/init.d/sendmail restart >> Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED] >> Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED] >> 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 588: fileclass: cannot open >> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory >> [FAILED] >> Starting sm-client: /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 544: fileclass: cannot open >> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory >> [FAILED] >> >> # ls -l /etc/mail/local-host-names >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 Jan 22 20:37 /etc/mail/local-host-names >> # ls -l /etc/mail/trusted-users >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Jan 22 20:37 /etc/mail/trusted-users >> >> >> How to fix this? >> > > I suspect the /etc/mail directory itself is world-writable as indicated by > the message above. Please examine the permissions of the /etc/mail > directory. I believe the correct permissions for /etc/mail are 755. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
