[SOLVED]Re: sendmail problems

[Sharon Kimble]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> Sharon Kimble wrote:
>> ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail
>> drwxr-xrwx  24 root root  4096 Jan  8 14:15 /
>> drwxr-xr-x  96 root root 12288 Jan 11 14:30 /etc
>> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Jan 10 11:47 /etc/mail
>> 
>> To me it looks like the problem lies with / where it seems to be writable
>> by 'others'. But how to change it I don't know, or if it should be
>> changed even.
> 
> # chmod 755 /
> 
> What you should be worried about is how your system got into this state
> in the first place. Any ideas on how someone running as root could
> change the permissions of the root directory so that any regular user
> could create, delete and rename files there? For instance, on your
> system a regular user could run the command "mv /lib /trash" and
> completely break your system in a way that would be quite difficult to
> recover from.
> 
Thanks, this sorted it, and I've got sendmail working again.

Regarding the other problem - the last sendmail message was at 0500 on
Sunday last ..... so its something that happened (or I did) between then
and now. I'm currently investigating.

Thanks for your help
Sharon.
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