On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:04:24 +0100 (CET), Gelsema, Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 December, 2004 23:56, Mike Meyer said: > >> I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on > >> startup. > >> > >> If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in > >> /var/log/console.log: > >> > >> Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd. > >> Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal option -- L > >> Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ > >> -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [ > >> -bs ] [ arg ... ] > >> > >> I'm getting those errors because sendmail is set to > >> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Since I'm running > >> qmail, sendmail should be run *at all* at startup. > >> > >> The really strange thing is that if I shutdown and then restart the > >> system, without a reboot, I don't see these error messages. > >> > >> I've traced this down to the sendmail_msp_queue_enable variable in > >> /etc/rc.conf. If set to yes, that invokes sendmail with the -L option. > >> > >> There don't appear to be any currently filed bugs related to this > >> issue, and google didn't turn up anything relevant. > >> > >> I'm running the GENERIC kernel. I've attached my /etc/rc.conf in case > >> something there is pertinent. > > > > After you installed qmail (from ports?) were there any instructions on > > how you should modify /etc/rc.conf? > > > > I use Postfix, and after I installed that from the ports tree, it told > > me to add the following entries to rc.conf > > > > dj : ~> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep -i sendmail > > sendmail_enable="YES" > > sendmail_flags="-bd" > > sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid" > > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > > > > Maybe that's some help? > > > > Cheers, > > David > > > > Sometime ago I installed qmail and what I remember is that in /etc/rc.conf > the following line needs to be added; > SENDMAIL="NONE" #check sendmail documentation for proper line
However, this is deprecated, and it is recommended that you use: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
