Sending local mails fails with: root@condor:/root(83)# mail root@localhost Subject: test test Cc: mail: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory Can't send mail: sendmail process failed with error code 1 There is really no /usr/sbin/sendmail but /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail: root@condor:/root(88)# ll /usr/sbin/sendmail* -r-xr-s--x 1 root smmsp 716024 Jan 5 23:02 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail* And sendmail.sendmail is configured as sendmail program /etc/mail/mailer.conf: root@condor:/root(85)# grep "^sendmail" /etc/mail/mailer.conf sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail Sendmail is running: root@condor:/root(84)# /etc/init.d/sendmail status * status: started root@condor:/root(87)# ps -ef | grep sendmail root 10096 23822 0 12:47 pts/2 00:00:00 grep --colour=auto sendmail root 19319 1 0 10:29 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: accepting connections smmsp 19322 1 0 10:29 ? 00:00:00 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue Why mail want to use /usr/sbin/sendmail and not /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail? Reproducible: Always
Reemerging mailwrapper and don't accept the changes suggested by dispatch-conf sollved my problem.
I guess that's a runtime configuration issue, then? If you have suggestions on how to improve how we inform users about that, please reopen.
