George Willis wrote:
>
> We've been running Sendmail on our HP3k's for nearly a year without many
> problems. However, just last week, we are getting some intermittent hard
> errors that prevents Sendmail from sending emails. This is an example of the
> errors we are experiencing:

...snip...

> :RUN sh.hpbin.sys;info="/SENDMAIL/PUB/DAEMON"
>
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: file /etc/sendmail.cf changed after
> open
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ^^^
> /etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: File changed after open
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

...snip...

> These are the access attributes to the sendmail.cf file:
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 MANAGER.SYS       0          28199 Oct 12 12:23 sendmail.cf

Try changing the security & ownership of /etc/sendmail.cf to:

-rw-r--r--   1 SERVER.SENDMAIL   SENDMAIL   28130 Dec 21  1999 /etc/sendmail.cf
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