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

Tue Aug 19 21:30:34 UTC 2008

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > /etc/mail:
> > =======
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  7178715 2008-01-14 18:35 access
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 10334208 2008-01-14 18:35 access.db
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       84 2008-01-25 12:44 authinfo
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-25 12:44 authinfo.db
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2008-01-25 13:57 backup
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      233 2007-11-22 05:53 domaintable
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-07 15:29 domaintable.db
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       45 2008-01-09 16:54 generics-domains
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      347 2008-06-14 10:59 genericstable
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-06-14 11:40 genericstable.db
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root     5584 2007-11-22 05:53 helpfile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root       94 2008-07-04 17:43 local-host-names
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      997 2007-11-22 05:53 mailertable
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-01-07 15:29 mailertable.db
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1048 2007-11-22 05:53 Makefile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    60875 2008-01-26 14:04 sendmail.cf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    60985 2008-01-26 13:55 sendmail.cf.bak
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     7988 2008-01-26 14:04 sendmail.mc
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 2008-06-28 15:53 spamassassin
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root    41716 2007-11-22 05:53 submit.cf
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      941 2007-11-22 05:53 submit.mc
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      154 2008-01-09 17:53 trusted-users
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     2715 2008-06-14 10:57 virtusertable
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root    12288 2008-06-14 11:40 virtusertable.db
> >
> > Hmm... what seems to be the problem here?
> >
> I have fixed my clock issues and find that the above error message
> really does not have much to do with the NTP or local clock - and the
> sendmail problem still persists.
>
> I have not had this issue before in the many months I have run F8
> including the inception of F9 until some point when the latest
> sendmail update was last issued.
>
> What I find at this point are the 4 files that are problematic with the
> latest sendmail updates:
>
> 1) /etc/mail/local-host-names (I use this for virtual domains)
> 2) /etc/mail/trusted-users  (I use this for trusted users)
> 3) /var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock (Spamassasin)
> 4) /var/run/clamav-milter/clamav.sock  (AntiVirus)
>
> In all the above 4 files, sendmail is complaining of a Group-Writable 
> issue
> and I have checked many times that this is not the issue at all, that
> none of the
> parent directories nor the file itself has any group writes set.  I have
> commented
> out the specific 4 lines in the sendmail.cf files and was able to get
> sendmail running
> again but without the features I need.  What I am not clear of, is if
> this is a SELinux
> issue or not.  I tried setenforce 0 and this did not help.
>
> These problems have not been resolved at this point.
>
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

    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