From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 15:23:33 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 15:23:30 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E01437B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:23:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id BAA07278; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 01:29:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3A53B4A8.A40293C8@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 00:24:24 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de Organization: i-clue interactive X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suresh Ramasubramanian Cc: Christoph Sold , Chris Byrnes , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: :P References: <3A534412.333FF94F@i-clue.de> <20010103210352.B18492@oyeindia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Suresh Ramasubramanian schrieb: > > Christoph Sold rearranged electrons thusly: > > > Chris Byrnes schrieb: > > > > Hypothetically, of course, when one deletes /var/spool, how does he > > > re-create it and its correct contents so sendmail operates properly again? > > > cd /usr/src/contrib/sendmail > > make install > > Just an idea, untested... > > That _will_ do it - but why? Instead, just recreate the /var/spool directory > tree by copying the structure from another box running sendmail (paying > attention to permissions, ownership etc as well) This works when you got no other box available. Pretty usual here at home. -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message