[CentOS] sendmail: fatal message, sudo bash

Wed Feb 6 17:50:33 UTC 2008
Milton Calnek <milton at calnek.com>

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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