From: Eric Ekong (email_suppressed_at_lugwash.org)
Date: Fri 17-Nov-2000 03:12:57 PM EST
I just found the answer on the Mandrake User web page. It seems there is
a problem with permissions with sendmail so the easiest way to fix this until
they fix the sendmail release is the following.
[-> 6.1/5] 'fetchmail' and 'sendmail' don't work anymore after upgrade:
(contributed by Marc Siegel, abridged)
This solution turned up on dejanews (simplified to comandlines by me)
As root:
Remove sendmail: rpm -e sendmail
Backup deferred mail: cp -Rp /var/spool/postfix/def* /tmp/
Remove postfix: rpm -e --nodeps postfix
Make sure it's gone: rm -rf /var/spool/postfix
Re-install Postfix: rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/postfix*
Restore deferred mail: cp -Rp /tmp/def* /var/spool/postfix/
Make sure files are in order, permissions, etc: postfix check
Start postfix daemon: /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start
Here is the web page to find the fix....
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/troubles/tquick1.html
Eric
* David Relson <[e-mail suppressed]> [001116 13:31]:
> Greetings,
>
> After my update from Mandrake 7.1 to 7.2, I have a problem with
> sendmail. Below is a sample of the console output and the /var/log/syslog
> messages when I attempt to send myself a message from the command
> line.Anybody recognize the symptoms?
>
> As a bit more information, I also have some cron jobs that are successfully
> sending mail to me and
> smtp is running on a different Linux machine on my LAN.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David
>
>
> Here's the console output:
>
> mail -sSubject relson
> test message
> .
> Cc:
> Can't create transcript file ./xfeAGFNb906891: Permission denied
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfeAGFNb906891, uid=1000:
> Permission denied
>
> In /var/log/syslog are the following messages from sendmail:
>
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: SYSERR(relson): Can't
> create transcript file ./xfeAGFNb906891: Permission denied
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: SYSERR(relson): Cannot
> create ./dfeAGFNb906891: Permission denied
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: from=relson, size=0,
> class=0, nrcpts=1, relay=relson_at_localhost
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 0: fl=0x0,
> mode=100644: size=31
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 1: fl=0x2,
> mode=20620: CHR: size=0
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 2: fl=0x2,
> mode=20620: CHR: size=0
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 3: fl=0x2,
> mode=140777: SOCK localhost->[[UNIX: /dev/log]]
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 4: fl=0x2,
> mode=20666: CHR: size=0
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: 6: fl=0x0,
> mode=100644: size=20480
> Nov 16 10:23:37 osage sendmail[6891]: eAGFNb906891: SYSERR(relson):
> queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfeAGFNb906891, uid=1000:
> Permission denied
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