Re: [foxboro] sendmail problems after system upgrade

Oh, this is a bug?  I thought the disabled sendmail was a result of Foxboro
finally addressing some security issues.... <g>.

In any case, I'm leaving mine disabled.  Sendmail does not have to be
loaded at startup (i.e., run as a daemon) if you are only sending outgiong
mail (which we are).

Corey
BASF



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Stan,

Check your /etc/rc2.d directory. Very likely the "S88sendmail" script is
named
"s88sendmail". Notice the lowercase "s". That means that sendmail is not
started by default anymore.

And the answer to your next problem: add a domain name to your hostfile.

So the "151.128.8.65 AW5101" entry in the /etc/hosts file should look like
"151.128.8.65 AW5101 AW5101."
Notice the dot and the end of the line, that is part of the syntax.
Letterbug and IP address are examples ofcourse..

After you start sendmail it will start complaining in /var/adm/messages
about "unqualified hostname". That's why you
need to edit your hostfile.

Marco.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: stan [mailto:stanb@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: woensdag 27 augustus 2003 15:03
> To: Foxboro List
> Subject: [foxboro] sendmail problems after system upgrade
>
>
> Yesterday our Foxboro field services guy "upgraded" one of
> our nodes from software version 6.1.2 to version 6.5. I've
> got most of the resultant breakge fixed, but I gave a
> remaining issue with mail.
>
> I've always just added a line like:
>
> xxx.xx.x.x            mailhost
>
> to /etc/hosts, that points to a corporate machine that will
> accept mail for relaying. I've re-added this line to etc
> host, and I'm able to ping it from the AW, but I'm getting
> messages like this in /var/log/syslog
>
> Aug 27 08:59:35 AW0400 sendmail[5537]: GAA11741: IVE05537:
> DSN: Host unknown (Name server: mailhost.: host not found)
> Aug 27 08:59:35 AW0400 sendmail[5537]: IVE05537:
> to=stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost., stat=Host
> unkno  wn (Name server: mailhost.: host not found)  Aug 27
> 08:59:35 AW0400 sendmail[5537]: IVE05537: IVF05537: return to
> sender: Hos t unknown (Name server: mailhost.: host not
> found)  Aug 27 08:59:35 AW0400 sendmail[5537]: IVF05537:
> to=stan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, delay=00:00:00,
> xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost., stat=Host
> unkno wn (Name server: mailhost.: host not found)
>   Aug 27 08:59:35 AW0400 sendmail[5537]: IVE05537: Saved
> message in /usr/tmp/dead.  letter
>
> also, on other machines, if I do a ps -ef and grep for "send", I get:
>
> root   966     1  0   Mar 04 ?        0:19 /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h
>
> Which I don't get on the downgraded (excuse me upgraded) system.
>
> I was wondering if anyone on the list had any insight, before
> I spend a lot of time diagnosing this problem.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
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