sendmail error

[juno2]

when I restart the sendmail service - it pop up the below message

Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]

, the sendmail seems failure now , what can i do? thx.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

So there is no sendmail process at all running?

try this:

sendmail -v -d8 -d38 someone@your.net

Type a line of text



Type a dot(period)

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Post results.

If you have recently played with sendmail.cf restore from the backup you took before you started.


service sendmail restart

What happens? How long does teh daemon stay up.

SEP

[Balaji N]

sendmail client seems to have some problem.

can u check if there are any related error messages in /var/log/messages.
-balaji

[Balaji N]

SEP, Correct me if i am wrong.

The problem is with sm-client, right?

And this is used so that when normal user wants to invoke sendmail to send mail, this is invoked, collects the mail and sends it to sendmail to handle.

And this has a configuration file of its own other than sendmail.cf. not sure of the name.

so will replacing sendmail.cf help?
-balaji

[Steven E. Protter]

I think sm-client has its own configuration file. Haven't seen it much.

Here is some docs on the subject....
http://www.linuxmanagers.org/pipermail/linuxmanagers/2003-February/000991.html

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2002/10/3/33014

http://www.cm.nu/~shane/lists/comp.mail.sendmail/2003-01/0000.html

http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2002-10/msg00891.php

May be an answer in one of those threads.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

Duh.

Look at the message sequence.

Its not failing to shut down, it was never running. It probably failed with an error at startup.

Check the start log, or modify the startup script to put all its output to a file.

Then post the file.

SEP

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Check the /var/log/messages for info
about the problems that happend.

Caesar