AIX 5.2 sendmail inoperative

[jaytco]

I am receiving the following error when sendmail is used. When I unset the TZ variable, the second error goes away. I get this same error no matter how I call sendmail. I have copied known good sendmail.cf files with the same error.
Is this a sendmail compile issue?

# echo "bob" | sendmail -v test@test.com
setuserenv: putenv(AGENT=sendmail) failed: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
setuserenv: putenv(TZ=MST7MDT) failed: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.

# lssrc -s sendmail
Subsystem         Group            PID          Status
 sendmail         mail                          inoperative

 

[rs6000er]

try this command : startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"
just copy to your terminal and enter.

hope it helpful!

 

[jaytco]

The command appears to work, but checking the pid it does not. Also tried to send an email and failed with the same error. FYI I do not need to receive email on this server, only send.

[root]@LabSAFE1[/]#  startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m"
0513-059 The sendmail Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 8880.
[root]@LabSAFE1[/]#  echo $?
0
[root]@LabSAFE1[/]#  ps -ef | grep 8880
    root 11160 13078   1 08:47:53  pts/0  0:00 grep 8880
[root]@LabSAFE1[/]#  setuserenv: putenv(AGENT=sendmail) failed: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
setuserenv: putenv(TZ=MST7MDT) failed: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.

 

[kHz]

If you are only sending email from a server you don't need to run sendmail as a daemon listening for incoming connections.

 

[jaytco]

Correct. It looks like the mail, mailx still use sendmail as the MTA. Whenever any of the above commands are used I get the error. Hmmmm.

#  mail bob
Subject: helo
lo
Cc:
setuserenv: putenv(AGENT=sendmail) failed: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
# setuserenv: putenv(TZ=MST7MDT) failed: A system call received a parameter that is not valid.

#

 

[jaytco]

After a little more research it looks like it is only the root user that can not send email to include daemons running as root (ie syslogd). I can send email to root and have it forwarded to another user and that works fine. Only appears when iniated by root. Any ideas??