From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 10:13:35 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 73A0D37B401 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:13:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E285C43FCB for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:13:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id h2VIDUS26157; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:13:30 +0300 Message-Id: <200303311813.h2VIDUS26157@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 31 Mar 03 21:13:19 +0300 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 31 Mar 03 21:13:13 +0300 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: "Kenzo" , questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:13:11 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: Subject: Re: sendmail help 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: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:13:36 -0000 Hi! > I did a make world and this is what I get at the next reboot. > > Starting standard daemons: inetd cron sshd sendmailsendmail:execing > /usr/local/sbin/sendmail:No such file or directory Ouch! Sounds like somehow the Postfix binary got lost during the upgrade... > > this is my mailer.conf > # > # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > # > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > I originally replaced sendmail with postfix. > and it used to work fine until after the make world. The trick of keeping your postfix alive through the 'make world' procedure is to have NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE in /etc/make.conf and during mergemaster make sure you don't let it replace anything under /etc/mail. > sendmail_enable="YES" > sendmail_flags="-bd" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" I have it exactly the same way on my Postfix server. > what can I do to fix this? I would try to re-install the Postfix port. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * A woman's husband's previous wife is called her 'wife-in-law.'