Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:30:00 -0500 From: Andrew Y Ng <ayn@AndrewNg.com> To: Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail help Message-ID: <20030331153000.GA11341@AndrewNg.com> In-Reply-To: <DAV5734xOjIL2jpWkfb000021ba@hotmail.com> References: <DAV5734xOjIL2jpWkfb000021ba@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. > > Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory > > this is my mailer.conf > # > # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > # > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail I have /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail instead. > I originally replaced sendmail with postfix. > and it used to work fine until after the make world. > here is part of my rc.conf. > > sendmail_enable="YES" > sendmail_flags="-bd" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > sshd_enable="YES" > > If I change the mailer.conf file to > sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/sbin/sendmail > and reboot, it hangs when it's trying to load the daemons. I think the real sendmail is at /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, not /usr/sbin/sendmail, which points to mailwrapper > what can I do to fix this? if you want to continue to use postfix, try re-installing the postfix port, it should fix it. (i haven't used postfix myself, but looks like the pkg-install script would take care of replacing the sendmail setup) if you don't want sendmail to be installed when you do a make world, put the following line in /etc/make.conf: NO_SENDMAIL= true /ayn -- andrew y ng <ayn@andrewng.com> http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://aynassociates.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+iF74vtjogpv8WUwRAuFpAJ4zlsREALbb1Om5k9F8hz5cMj/OFACdEQIX fsDeYLjpCJqsc5vwSy8Q6tE= =Kysa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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