On Sat, 17 May 2014 12:07:56 -0400 Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Recent install of jessie as vbox guest vm on win 7 64bit > > Preferring sendmail to exim I installed the testing package for > sendmail and of course that uninstalled a few things, including exim. > > So, my first run at sendmail , just starting the service > > # service sendmail start > > [....] Starting Mail Transport Agent (MTA): sendmailcan not > chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): No such file or directory > > Warning: Cannot use HostStatusDirectory = > /var/lib/sendmail/host_status: No such file or directory > > I would have thought the install of a pkg would also create any needed > directories for the pkg to operate. > > Is it normal for user to create these things? > > > > > No, it's not normal. The post-install scripts should create a working initial configuration where it at least starts up. Try reinstalling with the --reinstall option. apt-get install sendmail --reinstall apt-get install sendmail-base --reinstall apt-get install sendmail-bin --reinstall Does that give any errors ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140517212752.236ac...@orac.fil