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

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>>> [snip!]
>> Since nobody has responded, I thought to place here the fix for the 
>> the sendmail
>> groupwritable claims for the two file: local-host-names and 
>> trusted-users as follows:
>>
>> 1) Edit your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file and change:
>>
>>    a) Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names ==> 
>> Fw-o<space>/etc/mail/local-host-names
>>    b) Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users ==> Fw-o<space>/etc/mail/trusted-users
>        My mistake.  Here is the correct fix for above:
>        b) Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users ==> 
> Ft-o<space>/etc/mail/trusted-users
>>
>>    replace <space> for actual space character!
>>
>> NOTE: Your /etc/mail permissions are fine - no permissions changes 
>> are required at all
>>               for the files nor the directories or it's parents.  
>> This is a change by sendmail.org
>>               I think - dunno WHY, but there it is.
>>
>> As for Spamassasin and ClamAV - there is no known fix for this that I 
>> know of - does
>> anyone know?  Has *anyone* gotten these to work?  Why hasn't anyone 
>> said anything
>> about this anywhere that I know of?  I got this above information 
>> from a blog site of all
>> places so there has been problems reported and a fix - but not for 
>> Spamassasin or ClamAv
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dan
>>
>
I have now solved my problem!  Please ignore all this posting regarding 
making any
changes whatsoever!  It turns out, that for some reason, my root 
filesystem (/) had
groupwrite turned on!  Once I set / to mode 0755, everything was 
restored.  Sendmail
was right after all, in warning of unsafe groupwrite that followed all 
the way up the tree
to /!

Dan