Re: Sendmail/Sarge "OTP unavailable because . ."

[Fabian Hugelshofer <hugelshofer2003@gmx.ch>]

Robert S wrote:
> I've just upgraded to sarge.  I've been running sendmail and am getting 
> these messages repeatedly in my /var/log/auth.log:
> 
> Jun 22 23:01:05 debian sm-mta[6126]: OTP unavailable because can't 
> read/write key database /etc/opiekeys: No such file or directory
> 
> There seems to be a bit of discussion about this, but no visible solutions.

I read it has to do with "one time passwords". Don't know how to use or
disable it.

touch /etc/opiekeys

did it for me to prevent error logs...