From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 27 6:20:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mirapoint2.brutele.be (mirapoint2.brutele.be [212.68.193.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552A737B401 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 06:20:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.lefort.net ([213.189.162.78]) by mirapoint2.brutele.be (Mirapoint) with ESMTP id AYO45016; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:18:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (jsite.lefort.net [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.lefort.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645C715206; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from jsite.lefort.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jsite.lefort.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 35A6022E14; Mon, 27 May 2002 15:18:56 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 15:18:56 +0200 From: Jean-Yves Lefort To: Erwin Lansing Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: weird /etc/periodic and Postfix interaction Message-Id: <20020527151856.3e026463.jylefort@brutele.be> In-Reply-To: <20020527145636.A3294@mail.droso.net> References: <20020527131504.7eaa83bc.jylefort@brutele.be> <20020527145636.A3294@mail.droso.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 May 2002 14:56:36 +0200 Erwin Lansing wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:15:04PM +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have noticed the following error message appearing repeatedly in > > my system logs: > > > > May 27 11:06:03 jsite postfix/sendmail[71265]: fatal: usage: > > sendmail[options] > > > > After some investigation it seems that this message is provoked by > > the daily jobs trying to mail the results. > > > This looks lidt PR misc/38579 > (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=38579). > > pkg-message in the postfix port has also some information about this: > # less /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message > > /erwin After having browsed /etc/periodic, I had noticed that -Ac wasn't a correct Postfix flag, and I had disabled some checks in /etc/periodic.conf. I also had disabled 'sendmail_msp_queue_enable' in /etc/rc.conf, but after reading pkg-message it seems that I missed some variables, probably because they didn't exist when I first configured my Postfix system. Also, the trend of toggling some /etc/defaults/rc.conf flags and then toggling them back is very sucky (see /usr/src/UPDATING on some recent -STABLE to see what I mean). I'll now complete my setup, thanks for this valuable tip. Regards, Jean-Yves Lefort -- Jean-Yves Lefort jylefort@brutele.be http://lefort.homeunix.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message