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Re: Sendmail problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Wed Dec 2 09:58:29 1998

Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:57:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, George Lenzer wrote:

> One of my Linux machines that has been up for quite a while has developed an
> unusual Sendmail problem.  I would like to know how to disable Sendmail
> since this machine doesn't need it.  I have looked through most of the
> obvious rc.* files but haven't found anything that would stop send mail from
> loading at boot time.  Anywhere else I should look?
> 
> BTW, the error I get is "couldn't open /etc/sendmail.cf: line '0':
> Permission Denied" or somthing to that effect.  I have checked the
> permissions on the file and they look OK:
> 
> rwxr--r--
These permissions are not okay:
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root        38426 Sep 14 23:55 sendmail.cf
This is what they should be!
Lemme' know what happens next.

Cheers!
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Chuck Mead, CEO - Moongroup Consulting, Inc. <chuck@moongroup.com>
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