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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2001 12:08:03 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sendmail: Cannot exec /bin/mail
Message-ID:  <3B31C783.CB968776@i-clue.de>
References:  <3B31A9F3.627E590@i-clue.de> <20010621111919.J3591@sunbay.com>

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Fixed, thanks.

The problem was /etc/mail/Makefile does not know how to build
<hostname>.cf if it is missing. Seems to be a problem with the Makefile.

-Christoph Sold

Ruslan Ermilov schrieb:
> 
> It should be /usr/libexec/mail.local.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:01:55AM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> > On my Stable box built yesterday, sendmail won't do its job:
> >
> > Jun 21 09:45:13 msgate sendmail[2093]: f5L5Quj01649: SYSERR(root):
> > Cannot exec /
> > bin/mail: No such file or directory
> >
> > FreeBSD msgate.ms-agentur.de 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Wed Jun
> > 20 12:04:
> > 38 CEST 2001     root@msgate.ms-agentur.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MSGATE
> > i386
> >
> > Looking through /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, /bin/mail is mentioned as local
> > delivery agent. "which mail" locates /usr/bin/mail instead. Fixing the
> > path in sendmail.cf and HUPing sendmail, sendmail moans about "unknown
> > mailer error 1" when trying to clear the queue.
> >
> > Where should the path be fixed? Sending a PR can be difficult, since
> > send-pr also tries to use the nonfunctional sendmail :/

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