[SunHELP] sendmail errors

[Chris Pinnock]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:20:11AM -0500, Markham, Richard wrote:
> On bootup and when I try to manually send mail I get the following two
> errors:
> 
> # echo "test" | mailx -s "test" rlmarkham at hafeleamericas.com
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 77: fileclass: cannot open
> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 492: fileclass: cannot open
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> 
> 
> This is a new install Solaris 8 box with a more recent patch cluster.
> # ls -ld etc
> drwxrwxr-x  44 root     sys         5120 Dec 23 16:54 etc
> # ls -ld mail

Lose the group write on etc, or consider using the DontBlameSendmail 
configuration options.
Regards,
Chris