From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 07:16:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AED3E37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BFFB43F85 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:16:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 96731 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2003 14:16:06 -0000 Received: from 202-6-144-23.ip.adam.com.au (HELO adam.com.au) (202.6.144.23) by eden.adam.com.au with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 9 Apr 2003 14:16:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:46:30 +0930 From: Brian Astill User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas References: <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> <1049432553.3e8d11e923925@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:16:09 -0000 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >You should let mergemaster install *all* the files that you don't know >why it wants to install. This is the canonical way of pulling in your >local installation newly added files of the /etc hierarchy. > We MUST be getting close by now! OK, did all the good things with mergemaster, then: bra@BAPhD /home/bra #ls /etc/mail BAPhD.gihon.org.au.cf aliases.db freebsd.submit.mc BAPhD.gihon.org.au.mc errors.txt helpfile BAPhD.gihon.org.au.mc.BAK freebsd.cf mailer.conf Makefile freebsd.mc mailertable.sample README freebsd.mc.merged sendmail.cf access.sample freebsd.mc.rv submit.cf aliases freebsd.submit.cf virtusertable.sample bra@BAPhD /home/bra #cd /etc/mail bra@BAPhD /etc/mail #make && make install /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -OAliasFile=/etc/mail/aliases [there was quite a time to wait, here, before] /etc/mail/aliases: 25 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 254 bytes total chmod 0640 /etc/mail/aliases.db install -m 444 BAPhD.gihon.org.au.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf install -m 444 freebsd.submit.cf /etc/mail/submit.cf bra@BAPhD /etc/mail # bra@BAPhD /etc/mail #make stop ; make restart Stopping:/etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found /etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid not found . Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found /etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid not found What does this tell us - other than that sendmail still isn't loading? -- Brian