SUMMARY: Sendmail problems

From: Greg Siekas <siekas_at_mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 17:57:07 -0500 (CDT)

ORIGINAL PROBLEM:

Out of the blue I am no longer able to receive mail. The sendmail daemon
starts up but I get this in the log file:

Jun 23 15:49:52 hostname sendmail[1359]: 12 aliases, longest (www)
134 bytes, 421 bytes total
Jun 23 15:49:52 hostname sendmail[1358]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR:
getrequests: cannot bind: Address already in use
Jun 23 15:49:52 hostname sendmail[1358]: cannot get connection

When trying to send mail to someone I get the following:

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
binmail: opening /usr/spool/mail/bellezza -: Permission denied
binmail: opening dead.letter -: Permission denied
554 <bellezza_at_hostname>... Service unavailable

And also:

lpr -Php4 somefile
unable to create /usr/spool/hp4/.seq

SOLUTION:

This problem occurred due to the moving of the /usr/bin filesystem to
another disk. The s permission on the files in /usr/bin were not set
after the move. I had to manual change them back with a

> chmod u+s lpr mail binmail lprm lpq etc...

MANY THANKS TO:

Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_draco.harvard.edu>
Michael Matthews <matthewm_at_sgate.com>
Bob Sloane <SLOANE_at_KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU>

                                  Greg Siekas
                      Department of Biomedical Engineering
                               Tulane University
                     email: siekas_at_mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
                  url: http://tatanka.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas
Received on Sat Jun 24 1995 - 01:40:51 NZST

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