sendmail on SCO ODT + uucp: SOLUTION

[Lawrence Flon]

Kudos to Bob Kukura (rk at 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 at qsp

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