F8 & F9 (i386/i686): Problems with sendmail & dovecot

[Bill Davidsen]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

you quoted this without reading some of it...

> 
> The /var/log/maillog shows:
> =====================
> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3269]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 97: fileclass: cannot open 
> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
                                                ^^^^^^^^^

I would bet that /etc/mail is group writable. Or possibly /etc itself!

> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3269]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 619: fileclass: cannot open 
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3273]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 97: fileclass: cannot open 
> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3273]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 619: fileclass: cannot open 
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sendmail[3273]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 1743: Xclamav-milter: local socket name 
> /var/run/clamav-milter/clamav.sock unsafe: Group writable directory
> Aug  1 16:20:06 gold sm-msp-queue[3280]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): 
> /etc/mail/submit.cf: line 554: fileclass: cannot open 
> '/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory
> Aug  1 09:22:58 gold dovecot: Time just moved backwards by 25199 
> seconds. This might cause a lot of problems, so I'll just kill myself 
> now. http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards
> 
> Note the last line: I already posted a date/time setting problem in a 
> seperate thread.
> Date/Time randomly changes either in the future or in the past upon a 
> reboot and
> no, it's not the BIOS battery - it is brand new!
> 
> I checked the permissions in /etc/mail and all of the file there shows
> no group writable permissions:
> 
> /etc/mail:
> =======
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7178715 2008-01-14 18:35 access
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 10334208 2008-01-14 18:35 access.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       84 2008-01-25 12:44 authinfo
> -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-25 12:44 authinfo.db
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2008-01-25 13:57 backup
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      233 2007-11-22 05:53 domaintable
> -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-07 15:29 domaintable.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       45 2008-01-09 16:54 generics-domains
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      347 2008-06-14 10:59 genericstable
> -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-06-14 11:40 genericstable.db
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root     5584 2007-11-22 05:53 helpfile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       94 2008-07-04 17:43 local-host-names
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      997 2007-11-22 05:53 mailertable
> -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-07 15:29 mailertable.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1048 2007-11-22 05:53 Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    60875 2008-01-26 14:04 sendmail.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    60985 2008-01-26 13:55 sendmail.cf.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     7988 2008-01-26 14:04 sendmail.mc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2008-06-28 15:53 spamassassin
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root    41716 2007-11-22 05:53 submit.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      941 2007-11-22 05:53 submit.mc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      154 2008-01-09 17:53 trusted-users
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2715 2008-06-14 10:57 virtusertable
> -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-06-14 11:40 virtusertable.db
> 
> Hmm... what seems to be the problem here?

Keep your hardware clock in UTC. Everywhere. The most common cause of 
this is the clock is in UTC in Linux and the machine is infected with a 
trojan called "Windows" which defaults to local time. It will run 
hardware clock in UTC, you just have to slap it up aside the registry. 
Sorry, I haven't fixed this for anyone in several years, you have to 
look up how to do this, but that's *very* likely to be the problem.

I suggest running ntpd to keep your clock accurate, but that's not any 
part of this problem.
> 
> Dan
> 


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