topic Re: sendmail troubles in Operating System - Linux

sendmail troubles

Rick Garland — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:59:44 GMT

Hi all:

Fedora Core 3 is my OS.

I am trying to get sendmail up and running. I have set the DS relay and all but when I start sendmail (service sendmail start) it complains with the following;
[root@mysys mail]# service sendmail start
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 545: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
[FAILED]

Any ideas?
Thanks

Re: sendmail troubles

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 06 May 2005 12:06:29 GMT

/etc/mail needs to not be world writable.

That is not the cause of the problem though.

You really don't need the sm-client at all. It doesn't do anything for you.

I'd take steps so it doesn't run.

service sendmail status

If its good, you are good.

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@some.net

Type some text

.

Just to make sure the mail goes okay.

SEP

Re: sendmail troubles

Rick Garland — Fri, 06 May 2005 12:17:29 GMT

Gone through and checked all perms. No world write.

Have gone through sendmail.cf and commented the trusted-users and local-host-names. OK. The sm-client is not starting.

I can sendmail to myself. But not problem is the aliases. Says it is world write but I look and is not (both aliases and aliases.db).

URGGG...

Re: sendmail troubles

Stuart Browne — Fri, 06 May 2005 18:47:46 GMT

What are the permissions on the following two directories:

/etc
/etc/mail

Make sure neither of them are group-writeable.

Then make sure the file '/etc/mail/trusted-users' is also only 644 or 600.

That should clear that error up.

From my system:
drwxr-xr-x 100 root root 8192 May 7 09:38 /etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 5 18:31 /etc/mail
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127 Oct 29 2003 /etc/mail/trusted-users

Re: sendmail troubles

Gopi Sekar — Sat, 07 May 2005 06:30:49 GMT

just to ensure nothing is missed, execute the following

chown -R root:root /etc/mail
chmod 644 /etc/mail/*
chmod 755 /etc/mail

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: sendmail troubles

Rick Garland — Mon, 09 May 2005 10:54:39 GMT

Everything mentioned here has already been checked and is correct as stated.

More ideas, please?

Re: sendmail troubles

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 09 May 2005 10:58:49 GMT

put set -x into the sm-client startup script.

start and stop sendmail

service sendmail restart

Collect and post/analyze the data.

SEP

Re: sendmail troubles

Rick Garland — Mon, 09 May 2005 11:34:09 GMT

It appears that the issue has been resolved.

One message that was appearing is that the / is world writable. I didn't put much stock in this message because I didn't change the / permissions and this is the permissions of the default install. (Fedora Core 3)

To be honest I was somewhat heistant to make that change. I did make the change, from the / directory I did "chmod 755 .."

The sendmail stuff seems to work now.

Will this cause me some grief? Now or later?

Re: sendmail troubles

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 09 May 2005 11:47:55 GMT

FC 3 ships very secure. There should not be permission issues on / directory.

SEP

Re: sendmail troubles

Rick Garland — Mon, 09 May 2005 12:18:55 GMT

I will download new iso images.
Mine are setting incorrect perms

Thanks!