Re: Sendmail Oddity

[Michael Fratoni <mfratoni tuxfan homeip net>]

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On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:38 am, Brian Hanks wrote:
> I just recently built a new 7.3 box and have just about everything
> running as I like with the exception of sendmail.  The original install
> had no /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, but sendmail was successfully
> starting at boot.  I made some minor modifications to the sendmail.mc
> file and used m4 to generate a sendmail.cf file.  Now, is spitting out
> a "Starting sendmail: 554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined
> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set" error.  The odd part
> is that putting it back to the original state doesn't help.  It still
> won't start.  I keep getting the same error no matter what combo I try.
>  I've looked at everything that I can think of (actually twice) and I
> am getting no where.  I am no sendmail expert, but I don't remember
> ever seeing this issue before.

Sendmail should be looking for it's config file as:
/etc/sendmail.cf 

Does that file exist?

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