After starting sendmail from the init.d script once (with the pid complaint then too) it will not restart because for some reason it believe it is already running, even though it is not: whit /etc/init.d # ./sendmail stop * Stopping sendmail... sed: can't read /var/run/sendmail.pid: No such file or directory kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l [sigspe [ !! ] whit /etc/init.d # ./sendmail start * WARNING: "sendmail" has already been started. whit /etc/init.d # ps x | grep sendmail 14130 pts/3 S 0:00 grep sendmail - so: no sendmail running, no pid where the script expects it, but the script falsely deduces that sendmail is already running. Oh, and when I try any command line invocation of sendmail I get: whit ~ # sendmail can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. What is that error from? I'm doing this as root. Should sendmail have been installed suid root? If so, that's another bug.
Raker, Can you take care of this? I'm afraid that I won't be able to get to it until next week.
If you have a problem starting sendmail or for some reason it gets an error... and doesn't start... but the init script system thinks it is running... You can type "zap sendmail" and that will reset status of the init script so you can at that time do "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" to start sendmail. Please check your system log for the error message on starting sendmail. If you are still having problems, please post a copy of the log which shows error messages given by sendmail when you run the /etc/init.d script.
Oct 29 12:32:15 whit sendmail[13992]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by root Oct 29 12:32:15 whit sendmail[13992]: /etc/mail/aliases: 21 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 221 bytes total Oct 29 12:32:16 whit sendmail[13994]: starting daemon (8.12.6): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 Oct 29 12:32:40 whit sendmail[14001]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied - that's on a fresh attempt to start - also shows same error if sendmail invoked from command line
Just for comparison, here's the perms on the Gentoo installation: drwxrwx--- 2 root root 72 Oct 29 12:10 clientmqueue/ drwx------ 2 root root 72 Oct 29 12:10 mqueue/ Here's the perms on a working Debian installation (on the same box): drwxr-x--- 2 root mail 113 Oct 30 21:58 mqueue/ Should Gentoo be setting the group ownership to "mail"? Also, what's with the clientmqueue vs the mqueue? If even e-mail from root goes to the clientmqueue, does the mqueue even have a Gentoo use?
Unexpectedly gone for at least a week; returning to bug-wranglers
Changing the group ownership of /var/spool/clientmqueue to smmsp ends the can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. error but still produces an error from mutt on trying to send a test message, but does not produce an error message in the logs (although it also doesn't show the message as being sent). The "smmsp" ownership is some new security dohingus - for people who didn't bother to build sendmail to run as "mail"? BTW, sendmail is logging to mail.info and mail.log - both identically - and also logging to syslog - identically again. It should really only be going to mail.log, imho.
See http://ls.berkeley.edu/mail/magnet/0289.html (I'm still working through this ;)
Sendmail still won't start up okay - even after group ownership changes. Doing an /etc/init.d/sendmail zap allows it to be /etc/init.d/sendmail start'ed - but then a ps x doesn't show it as running despite the start script producing and "OK" messsage. Testing sendmail at the prompt gives a segfault both for Gentoo's version of the binary and for a version built from a fresh tar: # sendmail whit test . Segmentation fault The box has the Gentoo Linux.2.4.19-gentoo-r9 kernel - is the segfault related to some option there, or to the gcc version??
fowners root.smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue fperms 770 /var/spool/clientmqueue The ebuild does create and set ownership to the /var/spool/clientmqueue... When set as mentioned above, do you still get problems? If so can you paste log information trying to start sendmail making sure that the clientmqueue directory has the above permissions set?
/var/spool # ls -l total 4 drwxrwx--- 2 root smmsp 1032 Nov 4 14:44 clientmqueue - this is after changing the group manually - the ebuild did _not_ accomplish this, it had it as root.root. # /etc/init.d/sendmail start * Starting sendmail... [ ok ] BUT # ps x | grep sendmail 8358 pts/1 S 0:00 grep sendmail DESPITE Nov 4 14:45:52 whit sendmail[8353]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by root Nov 4 14:45:52 whit sendmail[8353]: /etc/mail/aliases: 21 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 221 bytes total Nov 4 14:45:52 whit sendmail[8355]: starting daemon (8.12.6): SMTP+queueing@00:30:00 Which _may_ be related to the segfault when trying to run sendmail from the command line to send a test message: # sendmail whit test . Segmentation fault
can you paste the results of ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail here? Maybe a library got uninstalled which sendmail linked to?
Here's the paste - but I unmerged sendmail and the current /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually a compilation from the tar distribution - which also segfaults. Maybe a library is just not compatible with sendmail?? Haven't uninstalled any that I'm aware of (and I'd be aware of that, right?). # ldd /usr/sbin/sendmail libdb-3.2.so => /usr/lib/libdb-3.2.so (0x40022000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x400c0000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x400d2000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x400ff000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40114000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40117000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
if you do a -v when running sendmail *for verbose* do the log messages say anything else that might help in solving this... I don't have any troubles with sendmail and there are many users running the same package as well...
I think the whole problem had to do with the segfaulting, and I was getting the segfaulting whether using Gentoo's sendmail build or building it from tar myself, so it appears to be related to something in the libraries. Since I wasn't getting anywhere with that, I installed qmail. If there is some suggestion of what might get sendmail not to segfault I can try that. This system began with the stage three Pentium ebuild (whichever it was for Pentium Pro) with regular emerge -u world's since, so the libraries should be standard as far as this goes - nothing experimental or custom there.
There are many working sendmail installations out there currently and permissions are set as suggested by the current SIAOG. I'm glad you got a working qmail setup. :)
