[SUMMARY] V.5.1A SENDMAIL/CRON WILL NOT START

From: Jane Caldwell-Myers <jane_at_nickel.laurentian.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 06:53:12 -0400

Hello,
I solved my problem. My /usr/var/adm/sendmail still had permission of
775. A executed the go-w sendmail and things worked.

Thanks
Jane
>>>ORIGINAL MESSAGES<<<
Again I seem to need assistance. In my plight to upgrade new
hardware/OS I seem to have acquired a sendmail issue. I am running
tru64 v5.1a (patch level 6) which upgrades sendmail to 8.9.3.
I change sendmail to that users only send from the local machines they
do not receive any email. I accomplish this by changing the
/sbin/init.d/sendmail file to prevent the daemon from starting. This
has never caused any issues prior.
The original line is:
nohup $SBIN/sendmail -bd -q15m ${ARGS} 2> /dev/null &
I change it to
nohup $SBIN/sendmail -q15m ${ARGS} 2> /dev/null &

That is all I do to sendmail. My problem now is that sendmail is not
running and if I try to start it I get
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail restart
        
Could not find the sendmail daemon.
        
Attempting to restart sendmail...
        
SMTP Mail Service started.
        
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf: line 116: fileclass: cannot open
/var/adm/sendmail/local.users: Group writable directory

I have done a
# chmod go-w /var
My local.users has permissions of
# -rwxr-xr-x root bin local.users

My output from
#/usr/sbin/sendmail -d0.1 produces the following - which includes the
same error
Version 8.9.3
        
 Compiled with: LDAPMAP LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND
NDBM
                NETINET NETUNIX NEWDB NIS QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB
XDEBUG
Includes patches for: SSRT3469 SSRT3531 SSRT3631
        
                                                                       
        
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf: line 116: fileclass: cannot open
/var/adm/sendmai
l/local.users: Group writable directory
        
                                                                       
        
============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
        
      (short domain name) $w = team.laurentian.ca
        
  (canonical domain name) $j = $w
        
         (subdomain name) $m = laurentian.ca
        
              (node name) $k = team.laurentian.ca
        
========================================================

My cron also does not function on this machine. I am hoping they are
related. Output in my
#/var/adm/cron/log
! Log level set to 4 Tue Jul 6 12:42:50 2004
        
! *** cron exiting on signal 15 *** pid = 5172 Wed Jul 7 16:39:08 2004
        
! *** cron started *** pid = 745 Wed Jul 7 16:42:34 2004
        
! Max job limit set to 25 jobs Wed Jul 7 16:42:34 2004
        
! Log level set to 4 Wed Jul 7 16:42:34 2004
        
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf: line 116: fileclass: cannot open
/var/adm/sendmai
l/local.users: Group writable directory
        
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf: line 116: fileclass: cannot open
/var/adm/sendmai
l/local.users: Group writable directory
        
/var/adm/sendmail/sendmail.cf: line 116: fileclass: cannot open
/var/adm/sendmai
l/local.users: Group writable directory

Thank you again for any assistance. I will summarize all at the end of
this ordeal.

Jane

Jane Caldwell-Myers
Laurentian University
705 675-1151 Ext. 2150
jane_at_laurentian.ca
Received on Sun Jul 11 2004 - 10:55:20 NZST

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