Sendmail issue

Joseph Bruni josephbruni@netscape.net
Thu Jun 13 09:07:01 2002


Linux and Windows users, please move along -- nothing to see here. This is a OS X issue.

This issuse has nothing to do with GPG. Sendmail is complaining about the fact that / is group writable. A quick trip to Terminal.app will fix that:

% sudo chmod g-w /

-joe



Charly Avital <shavital@mac.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I'm running Mac GPG 1.0.7, and I get the folloput log output in daily
>maintenance operations:
>---------------------------------
>mail:
>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 81: fileclass: cannot open
>'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
>Msmtp: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
>Mesmtp: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
>Msmtp8: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
>Mdsmtp: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
>Mrelay: Warning: first argument in [IPC] mailer must be TCP or FILE
>----------------------------------------------------
>I shall appreciate information, and eventually directions:
>- the meaning of that ouput
>- if it has to be remedied, how?
>
>Thanks,
>Charly
>
>
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