From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 3 7:39:11 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 07:39:09 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (unknown [202.169.133.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7634F37B698 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 07:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from suresh@localhost) by mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com (8.11.2/8.11.2/mjollnir-1.0) id f03FXqH18524; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:03:52 +0530 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 21:03:52 +0530 From: Suresh Ramasubramanian To: Christoph Sold Cc: Chris Byrnes , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: :P Message-ID: <20010103210352.B18492@oyeindia.com> References: <3A534412.333FF94F@i-clue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A534412.333FF94F@i-clue.de>; from christoph.sold@server.i-clue.de on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:24:02PM +0100 Organization: Hopelessly Disorganized X-Operating-System: Linux mjollnir.rocklines.oyeindia.com 2.2.18 i686 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) --suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <--> mallet efn org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message