why can't sendmail write?

[Gary D Kline]

	After having my DNS server fail late yesterday, and several
	times reboot, I find that something is wrong with some permission
	involving sendmail.

Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): collect:
Cannot write ./dfh3F89CTR000881 (bfcommit, uid=1001, gid=25): Permission
denied
Apr 15 01:09:12 sage sendmail[881]: h3F89CTR000881: SYSERR(admin): queueup:
cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3F89CTR000881, uid=1001: Permission
denied
Apr 15 09:12:25 sage su: kline to root on /dev/ttyp1
Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline):
collect: Cannot write ./dfh3FGQaHJ001960 (bfcommit, uid=1002, gid=25):
Permission denied
Apr 15 09:26:36 sage sendmail[1960]: h3FGQaHJ001960: SYSERR(kline):
queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfh3FGQaHJ001960, uid=1002:
Permission denied

	is what I found is messages.  The uid=1001 is, as evident,
	"admin"; uid=1002, is "kline", and gid=25 is smmsp.

	Can anybody clue me in on what I need to fix?

	thanks much,

	gary

	PS: I did check at the sendmail src, queue.c, but it didn't
	    give me many ideas.

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