Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:18:18 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: "Oleg V. Nauman" <oleg@reis.zp.ua> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: no local mailer Message-ID: <16011.25002.138504.661813@emerger.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20030402205754.GF75212@core.zp.ua> References: <F132syzrKULj1cdY4Qh0003e02d@hotmail.com> <16011.4537.279737.406477@horsey.gshapiro.net> <16011.7467.322808.498405@emerger.yogotech.com> <20030402205754.GF75212@core.zp.ua>
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> > > evantd> Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I > > > evantd> can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I > > > evantd> upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by > > > evantd> default) and it's output. > > > > > > evantd> # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost > > > evantd> 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address > > > evantd> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set > > > > > > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is a bogus (empty?) file. One way to fix this is: > > > > > > cd /etc/mail > > > mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf~bogus > > > make > > > make restart > > > > This happened on one of my -stable boxes lately when doing a upgrade > > using buildworld. For some (unknown) reason m4 bombed out and created > > an empty .cf file. > > > > I fixed it by doing something similar to what was done above, although > > why m4 failed is a mystery.... > > Some patch: > > --- /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile.orig Wed Apr 2 23:51:19 2003 > +++ /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile Wed Apr 2 23:51:50 2003 > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > # @(#)Makefile 8.19 (Berkeley) 1/14/97 > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/Makefile,v 1.21 2002/07/29 09:40:06 ru Exp $ > > -M4= m4 > +M4= /usr/bin/m4 > CHMOD= chmod > ROMODE= 444 > RM= rm -f > This shouldn't be necessary, since m4 is in the path in buildworld, is it not? Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to run make, cc, or any other tools. Nate
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