SUMMARY: problem with cron and sendmail

Well, the cron job ran fine last night after modifying sendmail.cf:

"...replace the

DontBlameSendmail
line by

O DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe

after uncommenting it. Restart sendmail and the error should
stop."

The suggestion above came from John Ballard. While this may represent a
security issue I can at least breath easier knowing the cron job works and
this gives me time to dig deeper.

Other suggestion were to check/verify the permissions on / /etc and /etc/mail
which I will do. Also several folks mentioned mentioned that this should not
have aborted the cron job but I see no other reason as I have not changed the
script and now it works again. Note: the same error appeared in the cron log,
too.

Thanks to:
John Ballard
Scott endley
Andrew Hall
Crist Clark
Jonathan Voight
Lars Hecking
Chan Cao
Mark Cain
Andy Scutt
Andrew Hay

Regards,

Michael J. Connolly
Worldwide PLM/PDM Manager
ITT Industries, Cannon
617-969-3700 x8302


-----Original Message-----
From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org
[mailto:sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org] On Behalf Of Connolly, Michael
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:50 PM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: problem with cron and sendmail


Recently added a cron job for user webusr:

15 3 * * * /home/users/webusr/restart_weblogic > /dev/null

this kills 3 java processes and then restarts them. Well, it was working fine
for a few weeks but now it kills the processes but does not restart them. (the
script has not changed). dmesg output shown below

Apr 15 03:15:00 cksun sendmail[963]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(webusr): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 77: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/local-host-names': Group writable directory
Apr 15 03:15:00 cksun sendmail[963]: [ID 801593 mail.crit] NOQUEUE:
SYSERR(webusr): /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 492: fileclass: cannot open
'/etc/mail/trusted-users': Group writable directory

permission on /etc/mail are drwxr-xr-x

Could someone point me in the right direction to correct this?

This IS urgent as it is affecting an application accessed worldwide!

Regards,

Michael J. Connolly
Worldwide PLM/PDM Manager
ITT Industries, Cannon
617-969-3700 x8302


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