that was it. I thought I checked that. But I
guess I overlooked it.
Thanks,
kelly
Quoting Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
What are your permissions on /etc ? These are mine. indicating write only
by owner no group no others.
drwxr-xr-x 48 root root 4096 Nov 29 17:48 etc
Kirk
>At 11:07 AM 11/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>I'm having a problem sending mail *>OUT<* of my Linux box. Recieving
>mail works very well.
>
>This problem just 'suddenly' appeared a month or two ago. Everything
>worked very well for several months.
>
>The Linux box is Red Hat 6.1, stock kernel, and the email client is Mutt
>1.0pre3us.
>
>
>
>The error produced by Mutt is :
>
>/etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
>Group writable directory
>
>
>
>When I attempt to start Sendmail from the console prompt it says this :
>
># /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
>Starting sendmail: WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>WARNING: Group writable directory /etc
>451 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 90: fileclass: cannot open /etc/sendmail.cw:
>Group writable directory [FAILED]
>
>
>
>I've uninstalled Sendmail and re-intatlled Sendmail but I the errors
>persist.
>
>I've changed the permissions on the /etc/sendmail.cw file too. The
>change I made was to make it world writable. That did not work either.
>
>The default permissions are :
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Sep 1 1999 /etc/sendmail.cw
>
>If anyone can offer some suggestions, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
>Thanks,
>kelly
>
>
>
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