[techtalk] problems with Sendmail

[Emma Natividad]

Hi Andrew,

Yes, I'm using Linuxconf...and I agree....Maybe the best solution would be 
upgrading, I already considered it, and it really seems there's something 
that doesn't work, lately I've been changing some items on the 
configuration through it. I'm running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36). I'll give 
it a try...

BR/Emma

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De:	Andrew Kirkpatrick [SMTP:arjuna at northnet.com.au]
Enviado el:	viernes 4 de febrero de 2000 1:13
Para:	techtalk at linuxchix.org
Asunto:	RE: [techtalk] problems with Sendmail

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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Andrew Kirkpatrick
http://www.northnet.com.au/~arjuna

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