From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 16:06:39 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 8E86F37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightning.adam.com.au (lightning.adam.com.au [203.2.124.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E96643FD7 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:06:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@adam.com.au) Received: (qmail 30815 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2003 23:06:39 -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 23:06:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 08:37:07 +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: Ruben de Groot 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> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> 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 23:06:39 -0000 Ruben de Groot wrote: >On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:46:30PM +0930, Brian Astill typed: >[...] > >>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? >> > >It tells us that sendmail wasn't running. You can neither stop nor restart >something that wasn't started in the first place. Try make start. > Actually, I went one better than that - I rebooted! Sendmail still just sat there and did not start. It's a puzzle. -- Brian