Andrzej,

thanks for your ! i figured it out. for some reason, there was a
symbolic link in my system so that when sendmail was called, it was
actually running postfix. not sure why, because i did run the
redhat-switch-mail program to change the system to sendmail. so
postfix was running instead, with all the sendmail switches!

thanks again...

mkm

Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:

> In the debug output you posted the script have not even tried to start
> sm-sendmail because /var/run/sm-client.pid (file that should contain pid
> of running sm-sendmail process) has been present.
>
> Most likely to get more meaningful debug output you should run
> /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
> before running
> sh -vx /etc/init.d/sendmail start
>
> BTW do you use submit.cf generated from Red Hat provided submit.mc?
> Red Hat uses "non standard" location of the pid file and non standard
> premissions requiring "" from sendmail startup script
> (touch ...; chown ... )
>
> It has caused some (different) problems in the past.
>
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