mail command
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Tue May 3 21:43:42 UTC 2005
Chris Hewitt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 22:43, wang wrote:
>
>>Thank you Chris,
>>
>>
>>>If is used to work, then something has changed to make it not work. So
>>>the question is what have you changed since it did work?
>>
>>I don't think I changed something. It jsut suddenly stopped working.
>
>
> Something has changed. Things don't just stop. It may not be you that
> made a change. What changed between when it used to work and when you
> first noticed it did not? Upgrade, firewall, configure something etc.
>
>
>>>Does it send mail locally, e.g.:
>>>mail root at localhost -s test
>>>text here
>>>.
>
>
> Did you try this test, to send mail locally? It will help to pin down
> whether the problem is on your computer or with sending to your mail
> server (which I assume is a different computer).
>
>
>>when I only type the mail command with out any option,
>>It says,
>>
>>No mail for root
>
>
> The mail program will also read mail. Typing it without parameters is to
> read mail. This message just tells you that root does not have any
> mail. That is unusual, do you redirect roots mail to another user?
>
>>>Assuming sendmail is your MTA, is it running? At the prompt
>>>([chris at amdk63 chris]$ is my prompt), if you do:
>>>[chris at amdk63 chris]$ ps ax|grep sendmail
>>> 3056 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
>>> 2200 pts/0 S 0:00 grep sendmail
>>>[chris at amdk63 chris]$
>>
>>when I try the same command, the system answer is,
>>
>>smmsp 764 0.0 0.0 3404 1420 ? S Apr22 0:00 [sendmail]
>>root 21056 0.0 0.0 4572 660 pts/1 S 14:15 0:00 grep sendmail
>
>
> I'm not sure about the sendmail in brackets, anyone?
It means it's a detached process.
> After trying to send mail locally, is the mail received by the user?
> What is in the log file (for sendmail typically /var/log/maillog)?
It sure looks like sendmail pooped out on your machine. I'd try a
"service sendmail restart" and verify that it comes up.
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