Paul Howarth wrote:Sharon Kimble wrote:
============== I then looked at '/etc/mail/trusted-users' which shows this;- ============== # trusted-users - users that can send mail as others without a warning # apache, mailman, majordomo, uucp, are good candidates root ============== and with permissions of rw-rw-rw-.
It now seems that 'sendmail' is not working internally at all, so how do I get it to work please?
/etc/mail/trusted-users should not be world-writable.
Try: # chmod 644 /etc/mail/trusted-users
In fact there shouldn't nned to be any world-writable files in /etc/mail at all - are there any others?
Thanks Paul.
No there are no others, so I did chmod etc., and /etc/mail/trusted-users now has permissions of rw-r--r--.
I tried running epylog again. Its full error report is shown here;- ============================ ./epylog Invoking: "Initializing epylog"...
(snip)
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe ========================= which seem to be the same as before. It looks like the crux of the problem is in the line "/etc/mail/submit.cf: line 545: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory". But I haven't a clue what it means!
It means exactly what it says; you have a world-writable directory, either / or /etc or /etc/mail.
What's the output of: $ ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail
All should be 755: $ ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jan 4 10:27 / drwxr-xr-x 87 root root 8192 Jan 11 05:34 /etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 7 09:55 /etc/mail
Less restrictive permissions than those represent a security issue.
Paul.
