HP-UX mail system

[khouloud]

Hello,
I am fairly new to Unix Administration. Last week our Unix server crashed. We re-intalled the Core OS and worked fine at first. After performing a complete restore from the backup tape and copied the /etc/passwd from another Unix server, the mailer stopped working. When I tried access the default mailer program (elm) in the HP VUE, I received the following message:
Mailer has not been installed and can not run because the execution group is incorectly set.
The question is: would reinstalling the mailer would solve my probem? if so, How would I go about it as well? or, where my probelm could be?
I know at one point the mailer worked because we received some old email that were in the queue.
Thank you so much.
Khouloud

[Michael Tully]

Make sure you have the appropriate permissions
for the files that reside under /etc/mail

# ll
total 238
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1037 Mar 1 08:59 aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 32768 Mar 9 21:38 aliases.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 0 May 1 2001 aliases.dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 835 May 1 2001 aliases.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 1024 May 1 2001 aliases.pag
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 10203 Oct 27 1997 mailcap
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 77787 Feb 12 16:27 sendmail.cf
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 725 Nov 30 13:10 sendmail.cw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root mail 34 Mar 9 21:38 sendmail.pid
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 1075 May 1 2001 service.switch
# pwd
/etc/mail

Was the backup tape that contained your OS older that the installation Core OS that you installed?

You may want to look at newer patches for sendmail.

[Domenico_5]

in add control also users mailbox in /var/mail

drwxrwxrwx bin mail 4096 Mar 14 7:20 /var/mail