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RE: Sendmail problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Lenzer)
Thu Dec 3 09:25:47 1998
From: "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 09:22:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: <199812021600.IAA11688@aa.net>
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Actually, when I checked the permissions, they were -rw-r--r--. I have a
feeling that I may have denied access by accident when I was trying to give
another machine ftp or SAMBA access to this one. I guess the problem isn't
with the sendmail* files, it must be with the access that sendmail itself
has???
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hazelett [mailto:hazelett@aa.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 11:01 AM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Cc: glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us
> Subject: Re: Sendmail problem
>
>
> George,
> What version of RH are you running and what runlevel are you booting
> into? There are several ways of disabling sendail, but I wouldn't
> advise it.
> Permissions on my box (RH 5.2) for the /etc/sendmail* files are:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30192 Sep 21 17:54 /etc/sendmail.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 59 Sep 21 17:54 /etc/sendmail.cw
>
> File sizes vary depending upon which version of sendmail your using.
>
> ... Steve
>
> "George Lenzer" <glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us> 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--
> >
> > If I wanted to keep sendmail running, what should I look at that might
> > be
> > causing the perms problem? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --------------------------------------------
> > George H. Lenzer
> > Technology Specialist
> > Cleveland Heights-University Heights
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> > E-mail: glenzer@chuhpl.lib.oh.us
> > --------------------------------------------
>
>
> hazelett@aa.net
>
>
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