On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/25/2016 05:08 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >I'm running Fedora-24(beta)/KDE, > >and sendmail/email (through KMail) is failing. > >When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", > >and journalctl has the entry > >"sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) > > after start: No such file or directory". > > I use Sendmail with Systemd on Centos-7 without difficulty. I realize that Centos-7 is somewhat far frmo Fedora, but at least they are cousins, so there ought to be at least a little value in knowing it can be done. > My first suggestion is to run postfix instead. :-) > > Assuming that is not acceptable, what does "systemctl status > sendmail" show? Open a couple of terminal windows, run "tail > -f/var/log/audit/audit.log" in one and "journalctl -f --all" in the > other. Then try "systemctl restart sendmail" and see what output > you get from that and what shows up in those other terminal windows. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." --------------------------- Corinthians 5:21 --------------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org