[techtalk] problems with Sendmail

[Andrew Kirkpatrick]

Hi Emma,

Maybe I misread your problem. So the shell field in /etc/passwd for various
users is disappearing... Any other fields going south also? I don't think
sendmail cares about the shell, but if the password field or the whole
user record goes, sendmail will spit.

I remember older versions of linuxconf screwing up a number of
configuration files including /etc/passwd. The most current linuxconf
recently fried my /etc/smb.conf. Do you use a system configurator like
linuxconf? 

Sounds like something is just plain broke. What version/distribution of
linux are you running? Maybe upgrade?

HTH

On Fri, 04 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah, of course this is one of the basic things you first learn about 
> administering Sendmail when you create your  first users....One of the 
> examples is my own account, of course I always had /bin/bash, it's been 
> working propertly since I first created myself and last week it started 
> witn these problems...i couldn't receive my mail and i couldn't 
> login...then I created it again (exactly with the same settings) and now it 
> works normally again..so I don't have a clue. Any other suggests are 
> welcome.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> emma
> 

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