On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:11:02AM -0600, Kelly Scroggins wrote:
The problem isn't sendmail. It's your /etc directory, as the log shows.
Somehow, you've given it group write permission. As root, run the following
command, and you should be fine:
# chmod 0755 /etc
> I'm having a problem sending mail *>OUT<* of my Linux box. Recieving
> mail works very well.
>
> This problem just 'suddenly' appeared a month or two ago. Everything
> worked very well for several months.
>
> The Linux box is Red Hat 6.1, stock kernel, and the email client is Mutt
> 1.0pre3us.
>
>
>
> The error produced by Mutt is :
>
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
> Group writable directory
>
>
>
> When I attempt to start Sendmail from the console prompt it says this :
>
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
> 451 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
> Group writable directory [FAILED]
>
>
>
> I've uninstalled Sendmail and re-intatlled Sendmail but I the errors
> persist.
>
> I've changed the permissions on the /etc/sendmail.cw file too. The
> change I made was to make it world writable. That did not work either.
>
> The default permissions are :
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Sep 1 1999 /etc/sendmail.cw
>
> If anyone can offer some suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Thanks,
> kelly
>
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Anand
