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Configuring sendmail on Jaguar | |
| Subject: | Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection | |
| Date: | 2002-10-07 15:41:29 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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I'm running sendmail under 10.2 behind a firewall with a lame ISP. That being said I'm having problems with config.mc. My config.mc file looks like this:
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Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2003-10-30 05:24:58 anonymous2 [View]
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Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2003-05-13 08:04:52 anonymous2 [View]
You have to check the permissions on / and all the subdirectories like /etc, /etc/mail for write permissions. If there is no write permission on / or /etc then give the write permissions and check.
This will set the permissions for every directory sendmail needs to be
non-group writable:
sudo chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue /private
Check all these permissions are same as below.
drwxr-xr-x 45 root sys 3584 Feb 3 10:24 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 512 Feb 3 11:54 mail
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 153 Sep 30 10:24 Mail.rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1201 Sep 30 10:24 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 0 Oct 10 04:58 aliases.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 1024 Oct 10 04:58 aliases.pag
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5266 Sep 27 19:07 helpfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 0 Sep 24 2001 local-host-names
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1829 Sep 30 10:19 mailx.rc
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 34924 Sep 30 10:24 main.cf
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 35625 Oct 1 05:09 sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 35625 Oct 1 05:09
sendmail.cf.pre110615-05
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Sep 30 10:24 sendmail.hf ->
helpfile
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 35625 Sep 30 10:24 subsidiary.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 5 Sep 24 2001 trusted-users -
Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2005-12-22 06:18:12 microbix [View]
edit manually file sendmail.cf
nano -w /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
replace line Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names with line
Fw-o /etc/mail/local-host-names
identically (if you got the same error for trusted-users)
Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
with line Ft-o /etc/mail/trusted-users
i spent 4 hours to see that. if you rebuild sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc you can modify the last file (sendmail.mc) to suit your needs
i recommend to you to use webmin (install with yum) for simpler sendmail administration -
Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2010-07-01 09:19:22 Harshad Mahajan [View]
Thanks a lot.
It worked for me as well.
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Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2006-03-13 13:01:25 rtantti [View]
This worked!!! Thanks. -
Sendmail still complaining about world writable, localhost refuses port 25 connection
2003-07-11 13:06:35 anonymous2 [View]
> sudo chmod go-w / /etc /etc/mail /usr /var /var/spool /var/spool/mqueue /private
I understood that the purpose of:
define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupWritableDirPathSafe')
Was so that changed to the filesystem permissions were not nessacary. I've followed the tutorial here:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/10/sendmail.html
and I'm having the same result. Even though the dont_blame option is set sendmail still refuses to start.
I am experiencing the exact same problem.
I have the dont_blame parameter set, I also modified the sendmail startup file with the appropriate parameter, and I just get the exact same message as you:
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 108: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
I made sure that all the directories had correct permissions for groups, but I remain stuck....
Could you get this solved finally? If yes, how?
Tx and cheers
bc@ensuran.org