flon@pollux.usc.edu (Lawrence Flon) (04/02/91)
Kudos to Bob Kukura (rk@theep.boston.ma.us). The problem previously described as: > We are having a peculiar problem with sendmail, and I would > appreciate any ideas, suggestions, or solutions. > > Sendmail is running on an SCO ODT 1.0 system, which is our UUCP > gateway. The problem appears sending UUCP mail from other hosts on > our Lan to UUCP sites. It works fine delivering, via SMTP, to all > our local machines, and smetimes works OK when sending, via UUCP, > to other hosts. > > The probem is that it will someimes get into a state where it says > "Cannot exec '/usr/bin/uux' errno=13". This doesn't seem to be a > problem when sending UUCP mail from the local (ODT) system, but > rather when another systemon our networkis attempting to get it to > send UUCP mail. Once it gets into this state where it will only > sen local UUCP mail, the only solution appears to be to kill and > restart sendmail. > was corrected with Bob's suggestion: >> The solution is to give the sendmail daemon started by init an LUID by >> editing /etc/rc2.d/S85tcp to read something like: >> >> /bin/su root -c "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h" Indeed, without the explicit su, the sendmail process created during boot will fail to send uucp mail from other hosts with the uux errno=13. With the explicit su, it works fine. Thanks Bob! Scott Simpers Quality Software Products simpers@qsp --