sendmail group writable directory errors

[Rick Smith]

what do these errors mean:

sendmail[26517]: NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 80: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
Sep 1 16:00:19 mf-ntc sendmail[26517]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 561: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
Sep 1 16:00:20 mf-ntc sendmail[26554]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 80: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
Sep 1 16:00:20 mf-ntc sendmail[26554]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 561: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory

[Martin Paul]

Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article
> <f3adde5a-afe7-48ae...@a17g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,

> Rick Smith <ricksmit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> what do these errors mean:
>>
>> sendmail[26517]: NOQUEUE:
>> SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 80: fileclass: cannot open
>> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
>

> You haven't setup mail correctly. create and set the proper permissions
> the directories defined in your mail configuration. Isn't that sort of
> obvious from the error message?

Not necessarily, AFAIR. The OP might be confused by the fact that
/etc/mail/ isn't group writable, not knowing that the error actually
means that all directories in the path leading to the file must not be
group-writable. So he has to check / and /etc as well.

mp.

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[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Vilain wrote:
> In article
> <f3adde5a-afe7-48ae...@a17g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>,
> Rick Smith <ricksmit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> You haven't setup mail correctly. create and set the proper permissions
> the directories defined in your mail configuration. Isn't that sort of
> obvious from the error message?
>

If you have little or no experience, many things are not obvious. In
the Unix family of operating systems, especially, brevity seems far more
important than obviousness!