Paul Howarth wrote: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> 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. > > # chmod 755 / > > What you should be worried about is how your system got into this state > in the first place. Any ideas on how someone running as root could > change the permissions of the root directory so that any regular user > could create, delete and rename files there? For instance, on your > system a regular user could run the command "mv /lib /trash" and > completely break your system in a way that would be quite difficult to > recover from. > Thanks, this sorted it, and I've got sendmail working again. Regarding the other problem - the last sendmail message was at 0500 on Sunday last ..... so its something that happened (or I did) between then and now. I'm currently investigating. Thanks for your help Sharon. -- 17:16:15 up 3 days, 3:01, 3 users, load average: 1.31, 1.35, 1.30 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
