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

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Aug 1 21:12:24 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 09:42 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 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
> 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:
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the clock doesn't change by 7 hours because of your permissions
in /etc/mail

You might want to figure out what your date+time settings are or more
specifically, what the time zone is (because 7 hours movement sounds
like a time zone adjustment).

Craig




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