Sendmail issue

[kpenza]

People,

I have a question regarding AIX 4.3.3, we have sendmail that relays email to our email system, thus it allows us to send administrative emails with output from crons etc.
One of our systems is behaving a bit strange as it is not sending mails locally and when view the mail queue via the mailq command every messages in the queue is being displayed as deferred. This is getting a bit awkward as the cron jobs are being executed but the mail with the scripts output is not sent to the local user.

Can someone please suggest to me the place, where can I look to fix the problem.

Thanks
Kenneth

 

[Mag0007]

Check out the mail logs and syslog and see if you see anything bad.

Try to send mail to :

mailx user@hostname and
mailx user

 

[kpenza]

Thanks Mag0007 for the help... I have tried both the
mailx user@hostname and
mailx user but the mail kept to be in the deferred state.

After a lot of searching in may places I decided to check the permission of the whole /usr file system of a working server and of the one which is not working. I discovered that the server which is working that some files which had a group permission set mail which the other was system. I changed the group of the files to mail and everything started working again.

Thanks very much
Kenneth