sendmial not starting

[Annelise Wilken]

Hello,

We have an rx2600 that is giving the following error message in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log:

# /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/sen
dmail.cw': World writable directory

Looking through the forum this appears to indicate a file permission problem - but I've checked all of them and they all appear to be ok: none of the following files are world or group writeable.

/
/etc (bin:bin 555)
/etc/mail (bin:bin 555)
/etc/mail/*
/var
/var/mail
/var/mail/*
/var/spool
/var/spool/mqueue
/home
/home/*
/home/*/.forward


Yet everytime I try and start sendmail I keep getting the same error message as posted at the top of this entry ..... can anyone help???

Many thanks,

[Peter Godron]

Annelise,
I have set mine up as follows:

Dr-xr-xr-x root bin etc
Drwxr-xr-x root bin mail
-r-x-r-s-r-x root smmsp /usr/sbin/sendmail
drwxrwx--- smmsp smmsp /var/spool/clientqueue
drwxr-xr-x root bin /var/spool/mqueue

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1 · Accepted solution]

Annelise,

Could you check your permissions on next directories

root / 755
# ls -lad /
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Feb 17 16:15 /

/etc 555
# ls -lad /etc
dr-xr-xr-x 27 bin bin 6144 May 4 07:26 /etc

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Annelise Wilken]

Hello,

Permissions are:

luna# ls -lad /
drwxrwxr-x 24 root root 8192 May 11 18:36 /
luna# ls -lad /etc
dr-xr-xr-x 29 bin bin 8192 May 11 18:41 /etc

Have changed / to:

drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 8192 May 11 18:36 /


Hurray!!!!!!! Have started sendmail .... Thank you so much!!!! I was so engrossed checking ....mail files I overlooked / .... doh!!!!

Cheers everyone points on the way!!! :)

[Annelise Wilken]

changed / to
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 8192 May 11 18:36 /

now able to start sendmail. (also now able to spell sendmail and not sendmial oops!!!)

Thanks all!!