[SunHELP] Problems with sendmail and new Solaris 8 install

[Chris Pinnock]

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:53:14PM -0400, Simoncini, Matthew wrote:
> I've just completed a Solaris 8 install on a new V880 and I'm getting errors
> from sendmail in my messages file:
> 
> Sep  6 15:55:08 eck sendmail[211]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
> SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 77: fil
> eclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
> Sep  6 15:55:08 eck sendmail[211]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
> SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 492: fi
> leclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> 
> 'eck' is the name of my server.
> 
> I checked another server we had loaded Solaris 8 on and the directory
> permissions and ownership for /etc/mail are exactly the same. This is kind
> of confusing because I don't know squat about sendmail.
> 
> Anyone ever run into this type of problem?

Change the permissions on /etc/mail so that they are not group writable.

(Or if you need /etc/mail to be group writable, I think you can set
DontBlameSendmail to an approriate value in the sendmail configuration
file.)