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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:21:26 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        keith@mail.telestream.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newaliases weirdness
Message-ID:  <20000614082126.A166@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006140023060.25453-100000@mail.telestream.com>; from keith@mail.telestream.com on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:24:08AM -0700
References:  <20000613231135.A465@dialin-client.earthlink.net> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10006140023060.25453-100000@mail.telestream.com>

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 12:24:08AM -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> Actualy I replied to my own posting with the solution. All I needed to do
> was to run it from sendmail instead of newaliases and it worked fine.
> sendmail -bi

Which makes me suspect even more that your /usr/bin/newaliases is a
bad link. It should be something like,

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  21 Jun  3 19:28 /usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper

IIRC, in previous versions, it was a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail. If
it were still that, things should be OK. However, if it were a _hard
link_ to /usr/sbin/sendmail and it was not clobbered to be the above
symlink, it could still be hiding the old version of sendmail.

At least, that's my line of thought...

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 04:54:06PM -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> > > Here is the version. And yes I did recently make world. That was in the
> > > first mail when I said "After uping a system from 4.0-R to 4.0-S and
> > > rebuilding the kernel and  rebooting."
> > > Any light you can shed on a solution would be nice. And better yet, some
> > > advise on preventing the moronic method by which I screwed things up. :) 
> > > 
> > > 220 bsd.mcfarlandis.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.10.0/8.10.0; Sat, 10 Jun 2000
> > > 
> > > # uname -a
> > > FreeBSD bsd.mcfarlandis.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Fri Jun  2
> > > 07:10:38 GMT 2000
> > > root@mcfarlandis.telestream.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/mcfarlandis  i386
> > > #
> > > 
> > > Thanks for any advise.
> > 
> > Is newaliases symbolically linked to mailwrapper? Is it perhaps still
> > the old sendmail?
> > 
> > > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:10:58AM -0700, keith@mail.telestream.com wrote:
> > > > > After uping a system from 4.0-R to 4.0-S and rebuilding the kernel and
> > > > > rebooting. All has run well. Once exception, newaliases is giving me this
> > > > > error when I try to run it. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 235: DaemonPortOptions parameter "Name=MTA"
> > > > > unknown
> > > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 236: DaemonPortOptions parameter "Name=MSA"
> > > > > unknown
> > > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 236: DaemonPortOptions parameter "M=E" unknown
> > > > > Warning: .cf version level (9) exceeds sendmail version 8.9.3
> > > > > functionality (8)
> > > > > 
> > > > > What on earth does this mean? Hope I don't have to rebuild sendmail
> > > > > every time I upgrade the system. The sendmail version is 8.10 so the last
> > > > > line realy confuses me. Here are the things I used in building my cf file.
> > > > > 
> > > > > divert(0)dnl
> > > > > VERSIONID(`@(#)generic-bsd4.4.mc        8.7 (Berkeley) 5/19/1998')
> > > > > OSTYPE(bsd4.4)dnl
> > > > > DOMAIN(mcfarlandis.com)dnl
> > > > > MAILER(local)dnl
> > > > > MAILER(smtp)dnl
> > > > > FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl
> > > > > FEATURE(`virtusertable', `hash -o /etc/mail/sendmail.domains.db')dnl
> > > > > FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -o /etc/mail/sendmail.access.db')dnl
> > > > 
> > > > Is rebuilding the kernel really all that you did? When did you last
> > > > 'make world' and when was the last time you built the sendmail.cf
> > > > file? You say that sendmail is 8.10.x, but it sure seems to think it
> > > > is 8.9.3.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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