Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 12:08:08 -0400 From: Carl Schmidt <carl@slackerbsd.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/42324: rc.subr complains with sendmail_enable="NONE" Message-ID: <20020902160808.GA72813@carbon.slackerbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20020902151628.GA72621@carbon.slackerbsd.org> References: <200209021450.g82Eo4Ek064081@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020902151628.GA72621@carbon.slackerbsd.org>
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I've sort of worked this out I think.
I will give a run-down of what is going on. I decided to remove all
mentioning of sendmail_whatever and mta_start_script from rc.conf and
re-loaded from single-user. It hangs after "Starting sshd." from trying to
run all the sendmail crap which is on by default in defaults/rc.conf.
The hang is actually because I have postfix installed and enabled in
mailer.conf and rc was trying to give it flags it did not use the way
sendmail does.
Okay, no problem. I realize sendmail_enable="NONE" will give a warning
so I use all the little sub-enable statements (sendmail_submit and so
on) in rc.conf. I re-load from single-user again and it works fine.
Now rc stops giving postfix flags it doesn't understand and I get no warning
because I'm not using NONE -- this is without mta_start_script="".
So it would seem to be the right thing to just leave it at that.
But I am not satisfied. mta_start_script="" seems to be the direction
desired but mta_start_script does not properly deal with this. After
using mta_start_script="" and removing all my sendmail_* stuff, rc
returns to its old behavior of hanging after sshd tries to start...
trying to run sendmail.
I still say this is broken since the sendmail rc.d script understands
NONE and will then not actually run sendmail, which seems to be a tad
bit better and more compatible with current ways than
mta_start_script="" -- neverminding that mta_start_script="" does not
appear to disable sendmail completely..
On a side note, the postfix rc.d script is doing things oddly. It is
trying to compare first then possibly copy files from /etc/ into
/var/spool/${name}/etc which is not created when the postfix port is
installed. I gather most people are using the postfix port. Sure I
could mkdir /var/spool/${name}/etc and just be over it but I am curious
why the rc.d script thinks postfix needs things in
/var/spool/${name}/etc?
And as for a solution to this mta_start_script problem I seem to have,
well I am not even sure if it is a problem and will await further
followups. I apologize for the length of this response.
--
Carl Schmidt
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