Sendmail Probelm

[COTLG]

Hi,

In some of my unix servers sendmail daemon is running as evident from the output of ps -ef |grep sendmail, but on sending a mail, e. g. echo "Hello" |mail <email address> I get no mail. Please what could be wrong.

Regards,
Chike.

 

[RhythmAce]

what does your log say?

 

[COTLG]

These are the contents of the syslog file with regards to the sendmail issue:

Sep 23 08:35:38 phcw298 sendmail[14508]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 77: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
Sep 23 08:35:38 phcw298 sendmail[14508]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 492: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory

Regards,
Chike.

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Check your /etc/mail directory permission. Can you post it here, please?

dbase77

 

[COTLG]

drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 512 Sep 14 14:50 mail
drwxr-xr-x 45 root sys 4096 Aug 31 15:42 etc

Regards,
Chike.

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Do you have '/etc/mail/local-host-names' and '/etc/mail/trusted-users' files? If you do, can you post the permission, please?

dbase77

 

[COTLG]

-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5 Sep 24 2001 trusted-users

-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 62 Sep 14 14:53 local-host-name

Regards,
Chike.

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

You need to check directory use by sendmail and make sure the directory is not world writable. Try google your error as well.

dbase77