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тАО01-14-2003 01:26 AM
тАО01-14-2003 01:26 AM
Recently, i faced these problem. I get this in my /etc/rc.log,
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start_msg... User unknown /dead.letter... cannot open: Permission denied
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail start":
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start... User unknown
/dead.letter... cannot open: Permission denied
"/sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail start" FAILED
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If i start it from the shell,
sakura/#>/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
start... User unknown
It will stuck there. If i leave it there, i can still sendmail from another session.
Any idea ?
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тАО01-14-2003 01:47 AM
тАО01-14-2003 01:47 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
Make sure that the permission for
/dead.letter is okay.
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тАО01-14-2003 01:52 AM
тАО01-14-2003 01:52 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
Pls check /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail file ownership and permisions, thes must be:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21 May 26 2002 S540sendmail -> /sbin/init.d/sendmail
Also certify these conditions to the file /sbin/init.d/sendmail, these must be:
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 3670 Apr 26 2000 /sbin/init.d/sendmail
And verify SENDMAIL_SERVER value in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file, for automatic start up in boot proccess must be 1.
Rgds.
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тАО01-14-2003 01:58 AM
тАО01-14-2003 01:58 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
in this case sendmail treats the "start" as a user to whom it tries to send a mail instead interpreting it as start message. Please check that the startup script and also sendmail binary have right permissions and ownerships
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 21 Jun 8 1996 /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendma
il -> /sbin/init.d/sendmail
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 3830 Jun 7 1996 /sbin/init.d/sendmail
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail 344064 Jun 7 1996 /usr/sbin/sendmail
The sizes may vary depending on the sendmail patch which is installed.
Regards,
Birgit
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тАО01-14-2003 02:02 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:02 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
#>/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
start... User unknown
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тАО01-14-2003 02:07 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:07 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
as Birgit wrote already, check the permissions of the sendmail binary. It should be suid / sgid root.mail ...
Jochen
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тАО01-14-2003 02:16 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:16 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
ll /sbin/init.d/sendmail
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 18 Aug 28 13:29 /sbin/init.d/sendmail -/usr/sbin/sendmail
ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
-r-sr-sr-t 1 root mail 409600 Jan 14 13:19 /usr/sbin/sendmail
I notice that my /sbin/init.d/sendmail is just a link file only which is quite different from you guys.
My sendmail version is
#what /usr/sbin/sendmail |grep version version.c 8.8.6.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/97 (PHNE_17190)
Rgds,
Randy
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тАО01-14-2003 02:20 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:20 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
Regards,
Birgit
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тАО01-14-2003 02:29 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:29 AM
Solutionremove the link and either copy /sbin/init.d/sendmail from another system or reinstall the patch or install more current sendmail patch. But remove the link /sbin/init.d/sendmail first!
Jochen
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тАО01-14-2003 02:30 AM
тАО01-14-2003 02:30 AM
Re: Sendmail cannot start properly.
How should i correct it? Even if i start manually from the shell from the binary ,
#/usr/sbin/sendmail start
start... User unknown
It is still the same.
Rgds
Randy