[CentOS] sendmail: fatal message, sudo bash
Milton Calnek
milton at calnek.com
Wed Feb 6 17:50:33 UTC 2008
I'd guess sudo is configured to send mail in some situations.
And that the parameters to the program are not what postfix expects.
Farid Hamjavar wrote:
>
> Centos 5
>
> Hello
>
> I successfully converted my mta from sendmail to postfix.
> no problem. mail is ok.
>
> A by-product of that, as bizarre as it may seem is this:
>
>
> As regular user, when I do 'su -' to become root, all is well.
>
>
> As regular user, when I do 'sudo bash' I become root
> alright but I also get:
>
> sendmail: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line
> or via the -t option
>
>
>
> I tried many things ranging from temporarily swapping sendmail.postfix to
> messing around with /etc/profile and /etc/skel/* and many other things.
>
> How can I address the annoying message above?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Farid
>
>
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