[CentOS] sendmail: fatal message, sudo bash

[Marko A. Jennings]

On Wed, February 6, 2008 12:02 pm, Farid Hamjavar wrote:
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> Centos 5
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> Hello
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> I successfully converted my mta from sendmail to postfix.
> no problem. mail is ok.
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> A by-product of that, as bizarre as it may seem is this:
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> As regular user, when I do 'su -' to become root, all is well.
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> As regular user, when I do 'sudo bash' I become root
> alright but I also get:
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> sendmail: fatal: Recipient addresses must be specified on the command line
> or via the -t option

Mail program used by sudo defaults to sendmail.  Take a look at mailerpath
and mailerflags settings in the sudoers file.