Thanks to all who responded that /etc and/or /var
had the wrong permissions. Futher investigation
revealed that the perms on /etc had been changed
to 775 so a vendor could install his software.
Ron Babcock, Dir. Admin. Computing
Casper College
Casper, WY 82601
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, rbabcock_at_heyoka.caspercollege.edu wrote:
> Managers,
>
> I have an AlphaServer 1000A running 4.0f and all of
> a sudden I get the following when starting sendmail:
>
> # /sbin/init.d>./sendmail restart
> No pid for SMTP Mail Service found
> -- Could not find running sendmail - attempting to restart...
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 58: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw: Group
> writable directory
> WARNING: Group writable directory /var
> SMTP Mail Service restarted
> 451 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 58: fileclass: cannot open
> /etc/sendmail.cw: Group writable directory
>
> What is the remedy for this? Sendmail was working just fine
> until about a week ago.
>
> Ron Babcock, Dir. Admin. Computing
> Casper College
> Casper, WY 82601
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 04 2003 - 17:53:56 NZDT