Unable to start sendmail service

karthick87 · #1 7th July 2012, 12:36 PM

Am unable to start sendmail service in Fedora 16. Pls find the error message below. How do i fix it?

Code:

[root@karthick-it ~]# systemctl status sendmail.service
sendmail.service - Sendmail Mail Transport Agent
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/sendmail.service; enabled)
	  Active: failed since Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:02:19 +0530; 16s ago
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/sendmail.service

***DBelton*** · #2 7th July 2012, 02:41 PM

Possibly, it is trying to start sendmail before your network is up and running.

But, are you actually using sendmail? If you aren't using it, then disable it.

Code:

systemctl disable sendmail.service

But if you do use it, make sure the network is up before starting sendmail

You may need to start the NetworkManager-wait-online.service.

Code:

systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service