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Article #159Re: no sendmail
From: Adam Carheden
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 00:00
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Nope, it's owned by mail.mail. Michael Dwyer wrote: > > Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote: > : I spoke too soon, sendmail 8.8 doesn't work. Here's what's in the log > : file when I send a message to my mailserver: > > : Feb 11 19:33:19 ftp sendmail[15260]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): Cannot open > : hash da > : abase /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument > : Feb 11 19:33:19 ftp sendmail[15261]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): queuename: > : Cannot c > : eate "qfTAA15261" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=0): No such file or > : directory > > I would guess that the user that sendmail runs as doesn't have permissions > to its own files. Either the files got chown'd to someone else somehow, > or ... well, what probably happened, is that the UID/GID to Username/Groupname > mapping stored in the /etc/groups and /etc/passwd files got messed up. > So, what used to belong to MAIL.MAIL now belong to UUCP.FOO or something. > > Check that. > > -- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Michael J. Dwyer I doubt, therefore I might be. > mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/ > Computer Science Major Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP
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