Paul Howarth wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> 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. > ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail drwxr-xrwx 24 root root 4096 Jan 8 14:15 / drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 12288 Jan 11 14:30 /etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 10 11:47 /etc/mail To me it looks like the problem lies with / where it seems to be writable by 'others'. But how to change it I don't know, or if it should be changed even. Sharon. -- 16:51:54 up 3 days, 2:36, 3 users, load average: 1.36, 1.44, 1.36 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.2-1.2.3, OpenOffice 1.1.4 Registered Linux user 334501
