Well, I think we got it fixed. Thanks go to those who replied, especially; Mr. L. Parkins, Tim Gallagher Bertrand Hutin And yes, I did have the O'Reilly book, that that went with the previous administrator. I have an arrand to run this weekend! I think the problem we experienced was a combination of issues that was finally triggered by the patch add. Part of the problem may have been that the patches updates sendmail with Sun's version of sendmail, which replaced an old copy from sendmail.org. The patch packages may also have done some SUID operations on some directories or files that caused Sendmail to not be able to write to certain directories. That, with the Smarthost relay and the actual domain being misconfigured after the patches, I think, caused my errors. While the error message was not very helpful, looking at the messages stacking up in /var/spool/mqueue indicated that the server wasn't able to find our smtp server. Using the Smarthost and domain information we had from another mail server, and setting the group to mail on /var/tmp/dead.letter seemed to fix things. I have monitored the messages file on this machine for a couple of hours now, and no sendmail panic messages. Thanks to all. Here are some informational links and other bits that were recommended by the respondants; Sendmail, 2d Ed. (O'Reilly Bat Book) - get it, even if you only have to reference it once or twice a year. www.google.com - I forgot completely about doing a Google search - (thanks, Tim) Sendmail.org - http://www.sendmail.org/ - the next best thing to having the 'Bat Book' on your desk. Gene Beaird -----Original Message----- From: gene.g.beaird@mail.sprint.com [mailto:gene.g.beaird@mail.sprint.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:30 AM To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org Subject: 'bogus' (?) sendmail errors after patching Solaris 7 box We recently instlled the 7_Recommended to one of our servers that runs sendmail. This is the first (to my knowledge) set of patches this system has had since being setup. The machine does important enterprise operations, and others didn't want to mess with it (don't poke a skunk with a stick, they said) for fear of breaking something. I felt it was more important to get security patches up-to-date on this system, and that we could fix what broke, or backout. Anyway, after installing the patches and rebooting, the machine is posting the following messages in /var/adm/messages; <servername> sendmail[3428]: f8EGBxF03428: SYSERR(root): savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere: No such file or directory <servername> sendmail[3428]: f8EGBxF03428: Losing ./qff8EGBxF03428: savemail panic We went from sendmail v.8.9.1 configuration file to v.8.10.2. I have been looking on the sendmail.org site and in SunSolve, but the only reference to any of these messages have been found in the Sendmail 8.12 release notes: "Avoid bogus error text when logging the savemail panic "cannot save rejected email anywhere". Problem noted by Marc G. Fournier of Acadia University." If these messages are indeed bogus, I will just ignore them. If there is a way I can fix sendmail so it doesn't return this error, I would like to do so. I don't really want to go to Sendmail 8.12, as again, I am not certain what previous administrators have done on this machine (they left SO many pages of documentation). If necessary, I will fall back to the older version, but since things seem to be running mostly okay, I would like to stick with what I have. I will continue my search, but if any of you admins and managers have any pointers, I would sure like to read them. Thank you for your help. Gene Beaird Systems Integrator V Sprint E|Solutions Houston, Texas _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Sep 14 22:34:15 2001
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