Samuel Sieb wrote:
When I try to send email I get the warning "Failed to transmit message", and journalctl has the entry "sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory".
My first suggestion is to run postfix instead. :-)
Thanks for the response. Can I avoid using sendmail for outgoing mail on KMail in that way?
Assuming that is not acceptable, what does "systemctl status sendmail" show?
I just tried this again, and I get much the same error message: ------------------------------- [tim@william ~]$ sudo systemctl status sendmail sendmail.service - Sendmail Mail Transport Agent ... May 25 18:37:18 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: Starting Sendmail Mail Transport Agent... May 25 18:37:18 william.gayleard.com sendmail[4789]: starting daemon (8.15.2): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00 May 25 18:37:18 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory May 25 18:37:18 william.gayleard.com systemd[1]: Started Sendmail Mail Transport Agent.
[tim@william ~]$ sudo cat /run/sendmail.pid 4789 /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h -------------------------------
Open a couple of terminal windows, run "tail -f/var/log/audit/audit.log" in one and "journalctl -f --all" in the other. Then try "systemctl restart sendmail" and see what output you get from that and what shows up in those other terminal windows.
I tried this; there was a large amount of output, but the only thing that struck me was the same journalctl message again: sendmail.service: PID file /run/sendmail.pid not readable (yet?) after start: No such file or directory and the following, repeated several times May 25 23:14:52 william.gayleard.com ksmserver[1395]: QXcbWindow: Unhandled client message: "_NET_CURRENT_DESKTOP"