Several people mentioned nsswitch.conf, since the problem pointed to name service silliness, and lo and behold, the server was set up with 'dns files' instead of 'files dns'. Replaced that line in nsswitch.conf, and it works perfectly now. Summary of problem: cron couldn't mail job output to root, connection refused sendmail listening only on 127.0.0.1 Thanks to: Chris_Sellers@adp.com PJakobi@t-online.de for pointers to the non-obvious solution, and everyone else who offered help. Ed Sorry about the attached signature, it's appended by Information Security. ----------------------------------------- Use of email is inherently insecure. Confidential information, including account information, and personally identifiable information, should not be transmitted via email, or email attachment. In no event shall Citizens or any of its affiliates accept any responsibility for the loss, use or misuse of any information including confidential information, which is sent to Citizens or its affiliates via email, or email attachment. Citizens does not guarantee the accuracy of any email or email attachment, that an email will be received by Citizens or that Citizens will respond to any email. This email message is confidential and/or privileged. It is to be used by the intended recipient only. Use of the information contained in this email by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and promptly destroy any record of this email. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu May 12 11:38:17 2005
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