Re: Sendmail error message

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 12:34:55PM -0600, Marc Davis wrote:
> Well, sendmail flipped out last night -- right after midnight . . .
> eh?  -- but my helpful linux guru happened to be over for a glass o'
> bubbly, so he reinstalled sendmail.
> 
> I'm now getting the following warning showing up in my logs:
> 
> Jan  1 11:01:00 maxx sendmail[1002]: /etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING:
> dangerous write permissions

What are the permissions there?

[hal feenix hal]$ ll /etc/sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root    34254 Oct 21 20:06 /etc/sendmail.cf

 
> Sendmail works fine.  I know nothing about sendmail and am a little
> lost as to where to begin researching this.  A quick look at the
> Sendmail web site manual and FAQ didn't find anything (I plan to go
> back more carefully).  Suggestions as to where to find the meaning
> of this warning or what permissions I should look at?

-- 
Hal B
hburgiss bellsouth net
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