[osol-discuss] Sendmail .. where to start

[John Beck]

Harry> Not sure how to get sendmail fired up aside from starting the service.

If you only want to send mail, then that should be all you need to do.


Harry> Tailing the log file doesn't seem all that helpful either.

/var/svc/log/network-smtp:sendmail.log is the services log file; the syslog
file that you want is found by looking in /etc/syslog.conf for a mail.*
entry.  The Solaris default is to use /var/log/syslog though many people
change that to /var/log/mail.log or something more obvious.


Harry> If I attempt to send mail using mailx in verbose mode I see the smtp
Harry> conversation, handshake etc , it stalls (endlessly) at the point where
Harry> the message is supposed to go on the wire. (posted at the end)

If (as root), you run `ps auxww | grep sendmail`, you will get a clue about
what sendmail thinks it is doing.  If that isn't enough to get you going,
send me private mail and I'll help you figure it out, then (if desired) we
can report back to the list to let everyone else know what the issues were.

-- John

http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck