On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Glynn Clements wrote: > Sarada Seshadri wrote: > > This suggests that sendmail isn't being run by root. > > > Could it be a problem of permissions? > > Not unless sendmail is setuid to something other than root. It should > look like: > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 384476 Sep 5 22:01 /usr/sbin/sendmail Wow! That was a great shot! /usr/sbin/sendmail was not owned by root!! I checked the ownership and permissions of so many files/directories but dont understand how I left out this one. Thanks a lot; it is working now. Regards. -Sarada - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
