From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 15:36:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9126437B402 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:36:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-65.56.141.188.dial1.chicago1.level3.net ([65.56.141.188] helo=there) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bruA-0007jF-00; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:36:39 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Giesen To: Cliff Sarginson , FreeBSD List Subject: Re: Sendmail startup, oddness in /etc/rc Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:36:34 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20020215225227.GA275@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <20020215225227.GA275@raggedclown.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 15 February 2002 04:52 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hello, > While investigating how to delay the startup of my mail system > until later in the boot process I discovered something a bit odd. I > use postfix, and it is all setup as it is supposed to with the mail > wrapper etc. I thought I would check how it is started in /etc/rc. > > However "sendmail_enable" set to "YES" in /etc/rc.conf does not > work unless it finds /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ! This surely cannot be > correct except for users of (the real) sendmail. > > I suppose it is harmless, but if you use another MTA what do you > need sendmail.cf for ? JOOC, if you use another MTA, why would sendmail_enable be needed in rc.conf? Doesn't that line (when set to "YES") actually start the sendmail daemon? I may be wrong, but I think that, by virtue of having that line in rc.conf (or defaults/rc.conf), you unwittingly tried to make yourself a user of the real sendmail. If so, the missing config (.cf) file just prevented it from acutally happening. :-) -- "My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat." -- Will Rogers (1879-1935), who was part Cherokee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message