Regarding mailx command

[Kavita Poonia]

Hello Folks,

I am not able to send any mail through mailx command from one of my HP-UX server having 11.31 version.

Do I need to configure anything on my server like sendmail...

Thanks * regards,
Kavita

[Patrick Scherrer]

Yes, you must set up sendmail.cf

[Kavita Poonia]

Hello Patrick,

Its already configured. And when I am trying to start sendmail services I am getting error as mentioned below.

[root@mddxrdd1:/sbin/init.d]#
#-> /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
Sendmail not running
Sendmail client not running
[root@mddxrdd1:/sbin/init.d]#
#-> /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
Sendmail server is disabled, You cannot start it manually using
sendmail script.


Thanks * regards,
Kavita

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Kavita:

You need to configure '/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs'. See the conments therein and those in '/sbin/init.d/sendmail'.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Hasan Atasoy]

hi kavita;

you need to chage start parameter in /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail to start sendmail.


http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1036060




Hasan.

[Kavita Poonia]

Yes James, you are absolutely right. I just checked configuration variable in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and its value is 0 so I need to change it to 1.

[root@mddxrdd1:/etc/rc.config.d]#
#-> more mailservs
SENDMAIL_SERVER=0


Thank you so much James.

Thanks Hasan.

[Kavita Poonia]

Hello All,

I have changed the value of SENDMAIL_SERVER to 1 in /etc/rc.config.d but then also I am not able to start sendmail services. I am not able to send any mail from the server. I am getting below error while starting sendmail.

[root@mddxrdd1:/etc/rc.config.d]#
#-> /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
Shutting down sendmail [Done]
Sendmail client not running
[root@mddxrdd1:/etc/rc.config.d]#
#-> /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
Starting sendmail [Done]
Unable to start sm-client

For more information see /var/adm/syslog/mail.log


# more mailservs
SENDMAIL_SERVER=1


Please suggest...

[Dennis Handly]

>For more information see /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Anything there? Does it have: /etc/mail/submit.cf is missing

[Kavita Poonia]

Oh ya Dennis....

Jan 20 17:56:19 mddxrdd1 sm-mta[14929]: starting daemon (@(#)Sendmail version 8.13.3 - Revision 1.000 - 1st August,2006): SMTP+queueing@00:30:
00
Jan 20 17:56:19 mddxrdd1 /sbin/init.d/sendmail[14909]: /etc/mail/submit.cf is missing
Jan 20 17:56:19 mddxrdd1 /sbin/init.d/sendmail[14909]: Sendmail client not started


Thanks * regards,
Kavita

[Kavita Poonia]

What should I do now ?