Bug 1259414
| Summary: | Sendmail Won't Start on Fresh Install | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Scott Weigand <sweigand> | ||||||||
| Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | qe-baseos-daemons | ||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||
| Version: | 7.1 | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2015-09-14 12:05:10 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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Is there anything related in: # journalctl -b -u sendmail and /var/log/maillog ? Created attachment 1069456 [details]
journalctl -b -u sendmail output
Created attachment 1069458 [details]
/var/log/maillog
I am unable to reproduce the problem. Cleanly provisioned RHEL-7 machine:
# yum install sendmail-cf
Copied your sendmail.mc to /etc/mail.
# systemctl stop sendmail
# systemctl start sendmail
Checked that the sendmail.cf was regenerated.
# systemctl status sendmail
● sendmail.service - Sendmail Mail Transport Agent
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Pá 2015-09-04 12:02:41 EDT; 9s ago
Process: 13182 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd $SENDMAIL_OPTS $SENDMAIL_OPTARG (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 13174 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make aliases (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 13156 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 13183 (sendmail)
CGroup: /system.slice/sendmail.service
└─13183 sendmail: accepting connections
zář 04 12:02:41 * systemd[1]: Starting Sendmail Mail Transport Agent...
zář 04 12:02:41 * sendmail[13183]: starting daemon (8.14.7): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
zář 04 12:02:41 * systemd[1]: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
zář 04 12:02:41 * systemd[1]: Started Sendmail Mail Transport Agent.
sendmail-8.14.7-4.el7.x86_64 Okay, this was a fun one. I can't clearly explain, so I'll just lay out the solutions. * Cutting to the chase, the solution consisted of A. Adding the hostname to the /etc/hosts file or B. Adding a "namesearch hostname or host ip". The former was actually listed a need-to-do, I put in the wrong hostname. * From what I can tell, the above step is new as I never ever did that on RHEL5 or RHEL6. I have to production RHEL6 machines running Sendmail, never touched the hosts file. Let me know if you'd like to know any additional parameters or factors. Thank you for all that you guys do! You're my last line of defense and always hate bugging you with this crap! Consider this Closed/Resolved. (In reply to Scott Weigand from comment #7) > * Cutting to the chase, the solution consisted of A. Adding the hostname to > the /etc/hosts file or B. Sendmail is a bit pedantic on this. It tries to forward resolve your hostname and reverse resolve your IP and checks whether the results match. The above mentioned problem mostly occur if your reverse DNS doesn't work correctly. The workaround is simple, just adding hostname into /etc/hosts. It works this way at least since I am sendmail maintainer (5+ years). Closing per comment 7. |
Created attachment 1069455 [details] My sendmail.mc file as of September 2, 2015 Description of problem: After a fresh install of Sendmail, Sendmail will not start. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Sendmail is version 8.14.7-4 How reproducible: In theory, doing a fresh install should reproduce it. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install sendmail sendmail-cf m4 2. systemctl start sendmail 3. fail Actual results: # systemctl status sendmail sendmail.service - Sendmail Mail Transport Agent Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Wed 2015-09-02 10:20:45 EDT; 25s ago Process: 39893 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd $SENDMAIL_OPTS $SENDMAIL_OPTARG (code=killed, signal=TERM) Process: 39887 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make aliases (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 39885 ExecStartPre=/etc/mail/make (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Sep 02 10:20:45 DMILiveWestWeb1 systemd[1]: sendmail.service operation timed out. Terminating. Sep 02 10:20:45 DMILiveWestWeb1 systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail Transport Agent. Sep 02 10:20:45 DMILiveWestWeb1 systemd[1]: Unit sendmail.service entered failed state. Expected results: Sendmail starts. Additional info: Let me know if you need any additional items.