Daemon sendmail doesn't start

[Jordi Gras]

Hi everybody!

We are trying to start daemon sendmail (/sbin/init.d/sendmail start), but no process starts. What's the matter?

Jordi

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[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

You need to change the following line (i.e. set the variable) in /etc/rc.config.d/mail to activate sendmail:

export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

After changing /etc/rc.config.d/mail, remember to re-run the startup script:

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Stefan Farrelly]

The previous reply should say change the file;

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for the correction.

It should be /etc/rc.config.d/mailserv

and not:

/etc/rc.config.d/mail

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

The problem is that the command: /sbin/init.d/sendmail start, doesn't do anything. It doesn't return any message nor errors. We look for the process it must be running but there is nothing executing.

In the other hand, that's what we want to do:

From one server (escp) we want to send mail to Internet through the SMTP server (hono). That server (hono) can send without problems mail to Internet. And we can access server hono from server escp by port 25 (telnet hono 25).
We don't use DNS.

Thank you in advance,

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
give this again.
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
and look for any errors given in
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
#tail /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,
There is no error entries on syslog.log, only two entries some hours ago:

Jul 22 11:37:48 escp inetd [519]: ident/tcp: Exit status 1

Jordi

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,
Ok.
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
#tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

get back with results.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Jordi Gras]

Hi,

No new entries on mail.log.

Jordi