messages not going out

[GK_5]

Hi! I use elm to send messages out. It was working. Now the messages the not going out. What could be the problem? where shall I look?

Thanks

[Ollie R]

Hi,

A few things to check:

1) ps -ef | grep sendmail
checks if the sendmail daemon is running - if not, restart it

2) tail /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
checks if the system is actually sending mail

Try these first and communicate the results.

Have you changed anything that you know about?

Ollie.

[Con O'Kelly]

How are you determining that messages are not being sent - are you not receiving them or can you see them queued on the system?

Does # mailq show alot of messages queued?

Also as Ollie said post last few lines of mail.log file.

Cheers
Con

[RAC_1]

what mail.log says?

and if sendmail is running?

what mailq says?

[twang]

Could the following succeed:
# sendmail < /etc/hosts

[twang]

Could the following succeed:
# sendmail < /etc/hosts