12-23-2002
Sendmail configuration problems
First of all, Happy Holidays,Merry Xmas, Happy Hanakah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Mid Winter Festival, etc.(Forgive me if I left your holiday out)
Anyway, here is my situation. I am setting up an email server at the job, and Sendmail is not cooperating. The error that I get on my RedHat 7.3 Dell PowerEdge 22500 is that /etc/sendmail.cf cannot open "line 88:cannot open /etc/mail/local-host-names: World writable directory" and"line 513: cannot open /etc/mail/trusted-users: World writable directory".
First, I checked the permissions for both files and even gave both of them the "chmod 777 <filename>" command, but that did not do anything. I rebuilt /etc/sendmail.cf a couple of times with the m4 macroprocessor, after checking /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to see if it looked alright, but that was no go. I even changed the name of the files in /etc/sendmail.cf from /etc/mail/local-host-names to /home/jstewart/local-host-names(I did remember to touch those files in /home/jstewart) and the same for /etc/mail/trusted-users.
This is quite frustrating, as many of you can identify with me. Can anyone offer any advice/give me a good website to look up the solution?
Again, Happy,uh Whatever and Happy New Year!!!
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