topic Re: sendmail question in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail question

Kelli Ward — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:10:17 GMT

Hi all,
I am setting up a sendmail server and am receiving the following error in mail.log

sendmail: /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions

I'm not seeing where the error is coming from, but it seems to be keeping my messages stuck in queue.

Thanks for the help.
Kel

Re: sendmail question

S.K. Chan — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:24:54 GMT

The error might be seen each time sendmail is restarted. See if the permission of the file 444 (bin:bin). If not change it. Also check /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and make sure
SENDMAIL_SERVER = 1

Re: sendmail question

Christopher Caldwell — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:28:26 GMT

Try
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

sendmail will tell you which directories it's bummed at.

newaliases: cannot open /etc/mail/aliases: World writable file

WARNING: writable directory /etc/mail

Re: sendmail question

Sanjay_6 — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 19:36:36 GMT

Hi Kelli,

Try this link,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=ac03203c06db6d380b/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000049915633

Hope this helps.

Regds