Re: Sendmail problem

Mike Jaffe wrote:
Allen Kistler wrote:
Mike Jaffe wrote:
Allen Kistler wrote:
Mike Jaffe wrote:
I am trying to get sendmail to work on my Fedora 4 server. I did the
install via YUM. That went fine.

But every time I try and start the service it tells me that sendmail
does not exist.

[snip]
I can't say I've seen that problem, but you can try a few things.

ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
to see if it's really there. It should be a logical link (or a few).
Track it down to a real file.

rpm -V sendmail
to see if sendmail really installed correctly. You've probably changed
the config files, so don't worry if rpm says they've changed.
Thanks, I ran ls command. Here's what I got..

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 6 04:42 /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
etc/alternatives/mta

[snip]

If the broken link is a known problem (I haven't checked bugzilla), then
have you gotten the latest FC4 rpm for sendmail? You didn't say from
where you yummed before.


It was a typo actually. /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /etc/alternatives/mta

I just did a Yum install sendmail right from fc4 terminal.

But from what repository? You should make sure you have the most recent
package.
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