Infrastructure Software

Having a strange problem with sendmail. We have configured sendmail only to listen to the local address. After the installation and sendmail was configured sendmail stop working. Noticed that the root process for sendmail was not running, but the one for smmsp was. I could send mail to external addresses but could not send to local users, ie mail root.

Removed the Sendmail packages, and reinstalled. Sendmail started to work again, and then several days later it stopped working. When trying to start the sendmail daemon using /etc/init.d/sendmail start receive the following messages:

451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 86: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': World writable directory
451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 550: fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/trusted-users': World writable directory

I checked other servers, and the permissions are the same as the ones where sendmail is working without any problems.

If permissions is the source of the problem, what directory is it referring to? /etc/mail has the permissions of 755 and is owned by root and group mail.

I am at a lost on this. Any Ideas?

Thanks.

Don Jones