Hi, ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue resulted in: drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov 7 04:02 /var/spool/clientmqueue -- so that's good. -- I tried to include apache as a member of the smmsp group and it still didn't work. So I removed apache from the group. None of the nslookup commands were successful. I tried it with the server's short name, full name (including domain name) and ip address. Results are shown below. nslookup SHORTNAME resulted in: ;; Got SERVFAIL reply from <a href="http://10.32.140.1">10.32.140.1</a>, trying next server Server: <a href="http://172.17.6.1">172.17.6.1</a> Address: 172.17.6.1#53 ** server can't find SHORTNAME: SERVFAIL nslookup SHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME Server: <a href="http://10.32.140.1">10.32.140.1</a> Address: 10.32.140.1#53 ** server can't find SHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME: NXDOMAIN nslookup IP.AD.DRE.SS Server: <a href="http://172.17.6.1">172.17.6.1</a> Address: 172.17.6.1#53 ** server can't find 208.129.32.10.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN -------------------------------- I am not sure if I turned setuid off on sendmail. I don't know where I can see if it is set on or off. It didn't seem to say anything in the <a href="http://sendmail.cf">sendmail.cf</a> file or the <a href="http://sendmail.mc">sendmail.mc</a> file. I am behind a NAT and I guess I should run a DNS server on this machine? I was thinking of just having the server's ip address and name in the server. I don't understand why it is not accessing /etc/hosts to see a list of names/ip addresses. I looked in <a href="http://sendmail.cf">sendmail.cf</a> and it had this: # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain DjSHORTNAME.DOMAINNAME # this is equivalent to setting class "t" Ft/etc/mail/trusted-users Troot Tdaemon Tuucp Tapache <div>On 11/6/06, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:les@futuresource.com">les@futuresource.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 20:14, jones yeates wrote: > I also changed /etc/hosts and added SERVER_SHORT_NAME.DOMAIN_NAME to > it, along with the ip address and the SERVER_SHORT_NAME. The IP > address that I'm using is the one I see on ifconfig, not the one that > is seen on a website that shows your computer's ip address. > > I get this error: > Nov 6 18:07:46 [SERVER_SHORT_NAME] sendmail[3774]: NOQUEUE: > SYSERR(apache): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission > denied ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ new problem Did you turn off setuid on sendmail? It should run as user smmsp for submissions as specified in /etc/mail/submit.cf and ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue should show: drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Nov 6 17:00 /var/spool/clientmqueue > I can access the DNS server. I am basing that on the fact that I can > access websites on the Linux server. > > Is there a command that I can use to determine the hostname of my > server and if it is setup in the DNS properly? Normally you should be able to use nslookup with both your fully qualified domain name and IP address to see if the values returned are correct, but if you are behind NAT you need a local DNS server to have the 'internal' addresses. A hosts file entry will usually work, although sendmail will try for an MX record and will use one it finds in DNS in preference to the same name in /etc/hosts. But, get permissions right before worrying about this part. -- Les Mikesell <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div>