E-mail Issue with Hp-ux

[Saurabh Rawat]

While trying to start sendmail , following error:
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 698: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/sendmail.cw': World writable directory
WARNING: World writable directory /
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 698: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/sendmail.cw': World writable directory

Permissions r as follows:
# ls -al /etc/mail
total 352
dr-xr-xr-x 2 bin bin 8192 Mar 7 11:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x 31 bin bin 8192 Mar 7 11:59 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root bin 879 Sep 3 2003 aliases
-rw-r----- 1 root mail 24576 Jan 30 08:04 aliases.db
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 10221 Sep 3 2003 mailcap
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 100834 Jan 21 15:02 sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 831 Jan 30 08:04 sendmail.cw

[VK2COT · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Dangerous setup.

Your top-level directory (/)
is WORLD-WRITABLE:

WARNING: World writable directory /

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Saurabh Rawat]

# chmod 755 /