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<DIV>Afternoon, I had a strange little problem on our BX (CentOS) server this
morning. Sendmail was failing with the following:</DIV>
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<DIV>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1 sendmail[25057]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 112: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-<BR>host-names': World writable directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1
sendmail[25057]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 167:
fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/virtho<BR>sts': World writable
directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1 sendmail[25057]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 623: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/truste<BR>d-users': World writable directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1
sendmail[25068]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 112:
fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-<BR>host-names': World writable
directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1 sendmail[25068]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 167: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/virtho<BR>sts': World writable directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1
sendmail[25068]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 623:
fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/truste<BR>d-users': World writable
directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1 sendmail[25068]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1745: Xclamav: local socket name
/var/run/cla<BR>mav/clamav-milter.sock unsafe: World writable directory<BR>Aug
31 07:00:01 s1 sendmail[25068]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf:
line 1746: Xspamassassin: local socket name /var/r<BR>un/spamass.sock unsafe:
World writable directory<BR>Aug 31 07:00:01 s1 sm-msp-queue[25090]: NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 544: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/trus<BR>ted-users': World writable directory</DIV>
<DIV><BR>A bit of Googling around and I eventually found:</DIV>
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<DIV>chmod 755 /</DIV>
<DIV>chmod 755 /etc</DIV>
<DIV>chmod 755 /etc/mail</DIV>
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<DIV>Which fixed the problem... even though it seemsed a bit vicious (I should
have taken a note of the mode before changing them, but rather keen to see it
fixed).</DIV>
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<DIV>I was just wondering has anyone else seen this problem and what would have
caused it? There were a few updates overnight, but nothing that should
have stopped and started sendmail, not AFAIK.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks</DIV>
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<DIV>Richard</DIV>
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