From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 9 16:43:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 865E137B401 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EF343F3F for ; Wed, 9 Apr 2003 16:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b207.otenet.gr [212.205.244.215]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h39NhimP007525; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:43:45 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h39NheJO039872; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:43:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h39NhdUZ039871; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:43:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 02:43:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brian Astill Message-ID: <20030409234339.GC33664@gothmog.gr> References: <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> <1049432553.3e8d11e923925@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030404113740.T20523@gothmog> <1049529621.3e8e8d153e24f@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030405221114.GA2419@gothmog.gr> <1049637546.3e9032aae7488@webmail.adam.com.au> <20030406225854.GB9824@gothmog.gr> <3E942B3E.20309@adam.com.au> <20030409143657.GA61280@ei.bzerk.org> <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E94A79B.5020205@adam.com.au> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:43:52 -0000 On 2003-04-10 08:37, Brian Astill wrote: >Ruben de Groot wrote: >>On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:46:30PM +0930, Brian Astill typed: >>>bra@BAPhD /etc/mail #make stop ; make restart >>>Stopping:/etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found >>>/etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid not found. >>>Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found >>>/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid not found >>> >>>What does this tell us - other than that sendmail still isn't loading? >> >>It tells us that sendmail wasn't running. You can neither stop nor restart >>something that wasn't started in the first place. Try make start. > > Actually, I went one better than that - I rebooted! Sendmail still > just sat there and did not start. It's a puzzle. What's your sendmail-related rc.conf part like? % grep -i sendmail /etc/rc.conf - Giorgos