Karl Ferguson writes: >I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but since all the maintainers >(should be:) ont his list I'll post here anyway. Should smail prompt >you to run from the inetd or from the command line as smail -bd -q10m >or something? Everytime I reboot my box I find I have to re-run >smail manually as to get it running. > >Is this (problem) fixed now? Or what's happening?
If you look in /etc/smail/crontab you should find the following: # Default `mail' user's crontab, supplied Smail for Debian GNU/Linux. # See /usr/doc/copyright/smail for details, or read smail(5) for details of # how to configure Smail. Autoconfiguration done by /usr/sbin/smailconfig. # (min, hour) (dm,m,dw) (command) 3,23,43 * * * * runq ...which copes with the -q10m part (actually does the job every 20 minutes). You should also find, in /etc/inetd.conf, the following: smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.smtpd ...which copes with the -bd part. If either of these are wrong then you have found a bug. ttfn/rjk
