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/etc/mail/trusted-users?

hello y'all. when my system boots, and all file are being ok 'ed. this particular file out of the whole lots fails. /etc/mail/trusted-users. the error message actually is "cannot open /etc/mail/trusted-users : failed". would like to know why, and how to fix this problem? thanks you all. redhat linux is my distribution

Well, the quickest way is to see if it's actually there...

Here's what /etc/mail looks like on my system:

Code:

prompt: ls -al /etc/mail

total 204

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2010-06-28 09:29 ./

drwxr-xr-x 81 root root  12288 2010-12-04 13:51 ../

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    486 2003-05-13 15:07 Makefile

-rw-r-----  1 root root      0 2002-06-01 15:57 access

-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-01 15:11 access.db

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    701 2001-01-03 16:18 aliases

-rw-r-----  1 root smmsp 12288 2006-02-01 15:11 aliases.db

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-04 18:09 domaintable

-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-01 15:11 domaintable.db

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5657 2010-04-23 18:56 helpfile

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    45 2003-05-04 18:36 local-host-names

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-04 18:09 mailertable

-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-01 15:11 mailertable.db

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  60482 2010-04-23 18:56 sendmail.cf

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2010-04-23 18:56 statistics

-rw-r--r--  1 root root  41449 2010-04-23 18:56 submit.cf

-rw-r--r--  1 root root    63 2003-05-04 18:36 trusted-users

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      0 2003-05-04 18:09 virtusertable

-rw-r-----  1 root root  12288 2006-02-01 15:11 virtusertable.db

And the content of /etc/mail/trusted-users is:

Code:

prompt: cat /etc/mail/trusted-users

# trusted user list (this is equivalent to setting class "t")

(that's the comment and a blank line).

Double post reported. Ribo01, why do you continue to ignore moderators asking you not to double post, as well as other users trying to help you?

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/help-847691/