Slackware sendmail not working
by rocknrobin from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5607K)
I am running a Slackware 14.2 distro and I do my slackpkg updates on Friday evenings. I noticed that on July 10th after updates my sendmail quit working. When I try to start sendmail this is the output I received:
Code:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start
Starting sendmail MTA daemon: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail: line 8: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Starting sendmail MSP queue runner: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q25m
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail: line 10: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directoryChecking the directory /usr/sbin/ I see this directory listing:
Code:
# ls -l sendmail
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 844032 Jul 5 14:37 sendmail*Therefore the binary appears to exist, but yet when I try to launch it I am advised it does not. In addition all my executables in /usr/sbin/ are in green, but sendmail shows up in yellow. I am not sure what this indicates.
I was going to re-install sendmail from my mirror for slackpkg, but it is not there. The one I find in the http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/ mirror is from 2015 so I wasn't sure this was the latest.
Has anyone else experienced this issue with sendmail?


Code:
# /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start
Starting sendmail MTA daemon: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail: line 8: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
Starting sendmail MSP queue runner: /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q25m
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail: line 10: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directoryChecking the directory /usr/sbin/ I see this directory listing:
Code:
# ls -l sendmail
-r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 844032 Jul 5 14:37 sendmail*Therefore the binary appears to exist, but yet when I try to launch it I am advised it does not. In addition all my executables in /usr/sbin/ are in green, but sendmail shows up in yellow. I am not sure what this indicates.
I was going to re-install sendmail from my mirror for slackpkg, but it is not there. The one I find in the http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/ mirror is from 2015 so I wasn't sure this was the latest.
Has anyone else experienced this issue with sendmail?