error when starting sendmail

[naths]

[root@adams root]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: sendmail: fatal: flush queue mode requires no recipient
[FAILED]
[root@adams root]#

[root@adams root]# ps -ef | grep sendmail
root 27511 23990 0 08:43 pts/0 00:00:00 grep sendmail
[root@adams root]#

Could some one please tell how to restart the sendmail deamon

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

Line by line:

[root@adams root]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
# sendmail was not running
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
# sm-client was not running
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
#sendmail started successfully
Starting sm-client: sendmail: fatal: flush queue mode requires no recipient
# sm-client pretty much does nothing, don't worry about it.
[FAILED]
[root@adams root]#

# check /var/log/maillog to see why and when sendmail failed.

SEP

[naths]

Hi SEP,

these were the errors which I found in /var/log/maillog.

Jun 11 07:36:46 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.82.247.152, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:36:51 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.82.247.152, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:36:56 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.21.124.234, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:36:56 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.21.124.234, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:37:07 adams dovecot: IMAP(nburghat): Disconnected in IDLE
Jun 11 07:37:20 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.82.247.152, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:37:25 adams dovecot: IMAP(nburghat): Disconnected in IDLE
Jun 11 07:37:40 adams dovecot: IMAP(pemswell): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 11 07:37:40 adams dovecot: IMAP(pemswell): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 11 07:37:44 adams postfix/postfix-script: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running
Jun 11 07:37:44 adams postfix/sendmail[24077]: fatal: flush queue mode requires no recipient
Jun 11 07:37:52 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=64.101.209.110, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:37:53 adams dovecot: IMAP(trfridle): Disconnected: Logged out
Jun 11 07:38:00 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.21.124.234, lip=171.70.117.190
Jun 11 07:38:00 adams dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=, method=PLAIN, rip=10.21.124.234, lip=171.70.117.190
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[Jimmy Vance]

At first glance it looks like your trying to run both sendmail and postfix. You only need one MTA and in your case I'd say postfix is running by default

[naths]

Jimmy,

So you mean to say that there is no need to restart the sendmail deamon.

--surendra.

[Maaz]

>So you mean to say that there is no need to restart the sendmail deamon.
Yes, you do not need 'sendmail', because as Jimmy Vance said that Postfix is already running, and you either need 'postfix' or 'sendmail', and you cant run both simultaneously, because both are the SMTP server.

and you should stop sendmail
and also make sure that sendmail must not run automatically at system startup, via
# chkconfig sendmail off

Regards
Maaz

[snp]

Nothing worked for me and finally i have removed sendmail and trying to reinstall ended with following error message.

[root@mercury sendmail-8.14.3]# install: cannot create regular file `/usr/man/man1/vacation.1': No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [install-docs] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/mail/sendmail-8.14.3/obj.Linux.2.6.18-8.el5.i686/vacation'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>

[Steven Schweda]

> Nothing worked for me [...]

Start your own thread, and explain what
you're doing?

[snp]

sendmail stop working and unable restart and shutdown.
Shutting down sendmail: [FAILED]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]

so thought of remove and re-istall will work but i'm getting 2 errors while installing.

[Steven Schweda]

Please start your own thread.

When you do start your own thread, it might
help if you also reveal something about your
system, and a few details like:

Did sendmail ever work? If so, what changed?

Did you look at the system log file(s)?


Did I already suggest starting your own
thread? You should start your own thread.