On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 01:03:42PM +0000, Neil Marjoram wrote: > I have a small problem with sendmail. > I have a number of students working on the configuration of some Fedora > systems as part of an MSc course we run. One of them has an interesting > problem I can't fathom out at all. When he sends a mail meesage to a > local user he has created sendmail returns the error dsn=5.1.1, > stat=User unknown. (we use command line mail to send the email) When I > create a user on the same box and send a mail there is no problem. I am > not sure how the student created the user but I think it was with a > command like this : useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d > /workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s /bin/bash Jenny. > You can su to the user, login from outside and send a mail from the user > to root, I can't find anything in the passwd etc. files that looks out > of place. > > Does anyone know anything I may have missed. > > Many thanks, > > Neil. > Well this is probably irrelevant and it may be a typo in your message but your student did not create a user with command above: useradd -c 'works clerk--Jenny Rawring' -d /workspace/home/Jenny/Jenny -s /bin/bash Jenny In order to do that the directory: /workspace/home/Jenny would have to already exist, which I doubt. -- ======================================================================= ... whether it is better to spend a life not knowing what you want or to spend a life knowing exactly what you want and that you will never have it. -- Richard Shelton ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
