Bryan,
Forgive me if I talk rubbish here, I really don't know how Sendmail
works. But reading your story, I suspect that somehow your
"/dev/null" got damaged/removed/overwritten. Try "ls -l /dev/null"
and see what it says, it should say something like
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Apr 11 16:25 /dev/null
Mind the "c" at the beginning of the line and the "1, 3" instead of a
filesize. If it says something like
drw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4096 May 21 14:43 /dev/null
then you've got a problem. You should use "mknod" then. If you use
Linux, you should do "mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3" (as root of
course).
But again, maybe I'm talking nonsense here and the problem isn't
related to the OS but to Sendmail. In that case, I'm afraid you'll
need someone else's help :)
Regards,
Hans
On Wednesday 17 July 2002 05:20, Bryan Greenawalt wrote:
(I am aware this is a procmail list, not sendmail, but
I think my problem may be procmail related)
I recently upgraded to the latest version of sendmail
on a box running a kernel version I am embarrased to
say. Everything seems to have compiled successfully,
but when I recieve an incoming message, I see an error
from sendmail that says"
<message id>: disconnect: open("/dev/null") failed: Is
a directory
immediately followed by:
procmail[<pid>]: Error while writing to "/dev/null"
Then the message gets bounced back to the sender with
a response that says:
procmail: Error while writing to "/dev/null"
554 5.3.5 System file missing
Now I'm sure that there really IS a system file of
some sort missing, but I have waded through stacks of
manuals and I can't seem to figure out which file is
missing. I did not configure anything specifically in
sendmail to deal with procmail and I suspect the
/dev/null path stems from that. Can any one help me
out?? (I upgraded to the latest version of procmail
which did not change my problem)
Thanks!
A confused Bryan
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