CentOS - Dec 2005 - sendmail problems errors

hello,
  
  i am having problems with sendmail when i am trying to restart it. this 
morning i woke up and found it not working and when i tried restarting  it
belched out these errors at me.
  
  [root at dusty init.d]# ./sendmail start
  Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91: fileclass: 
cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
  451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
                                                              [FAILED]
  this is what the sendmail.cf file says at line 91:
  # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email
  Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names
  
  and also at line 588:
  # this is equivalent to setting class "t"
  Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users
  Troot
  Tdaemon
  Tuucp
  
  now what am i missing.
  i am using centos 4.2  x86_64
  
  thanks
  
  
  


Steven
 

"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements'
section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed
Linux."
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On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 11:58, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> i am having problems with sendmail when i am trying to restart it.
> this morning i woke up and found it not working and when i tried
> restarting it belched out these errors at me.
> 
> [root at dusty init.d]# ./sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 91:
> fileclass: cannot open '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable
> directory
> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 588: fileclass: cannot open
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> now what am i missing.
Reading the error message... 
chmod g-w /etc/mail
..and do an ls -ld /etc/mail to make sure the owner and
other permissions are sane.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com