Hey,

Well now I have another server with problems. It's a RedHat server and we had installed Plesk to test it out and see if we were going to buy it, well we didn't like it as much as we thought so we uninstalled it. Well I installed all the other servers fine (ftp, apache, etc) and I got sendmail to install but it isn't working :-/

I go into my webmin and do start sendmail, it says sendmail started and then when I go back it says start sendmail and in status it says not running. but when I do a satus from telnet with sendmail it says running.

What could the problem be??

Thx,

matt

Hi,
By default sendmail could not accept mails from outside ....Is only can listen from loopback. Just do the following in this link to make it up for your network.
http://seifried.org/security/os/linux/redhat/20011031-rh72-sendmail.html
I think it would help u.
bye

OK,

Well yes that was part of the problem I believe, but there is more too it I just found out.

Well I think part of the problem with the status thing on webmin is that the PID file isn't getting created. Also this is part of the LogWatch email that got emailed to root about sendmail :

unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail due to signal
unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
unable to write /var/run/sendmail.pid: Permission denied
NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use


Hope this will help someone help me :)

Matt

OK,

I keep finding out more and more..ok new thing

This is what I think to be the cuase of all the problems. Sendmail is using init when it should be using xinit since that is what this server is using. So the question is how do I get sendmail to do that??

Matt