From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 15 14:38:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soupnazi.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2982137B401; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:38:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 14:39:05 -0800 Subject: Re: mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Cc: , "Kenneth Tucker" To: "Dax Eckenberg" From: Jim Mock In-Reply-To: <01fe01c2bc45$2d41af80$0a0aa8c0@dweebsoft.com> Message-Id: <271D7D62-28DA-11D7-8C07-000393460DB2@soupnazi.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 07:21 PM, Dax Eckenberg wrote: >> Changed to MAILSERVER=-YES-" >> >> % /System/Library/StartupItems/Sendmail/Sendmail start >> Starting mail services >> 451 4.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 93: fileclass: cannot open >> '/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory >> >> Above is the message before and after reboot >> line 96 is as follows (ignore <--) : >> >> Cwlocalhost >> # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email >> Fw/etc/mail/local-host-names <-- 96 >> > > try turning off group write for the /etc/mail directory > > # chmod g-w /etc/mail That won't fix it. On OS X systems, / is group writable for various reasons. The easiest workaround is to add this to the .mc file you use to generate sendmail.cf: define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupWritableDirPathSafe') There are a *ton* of web sites that cover getting sendmail on OS X to work properly. Search google. Also, there's a decent article on O'Reilly's Mac Dev Center about it. - jim -- jim mock jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message