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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:43:00 -0700
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Parts of sendmail seem to be missing
Message-ID:  <20000707214300.B416@dialin-client.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <200007071618.e67GIUn23866@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:18:30AM -0700
References:  <200007071618.e67GIUn23866@ptavv.es.net>

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On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 09:18:30AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have not run sendmail on my systems as I receive mail elsewhere and
> felt that it was mostly a potential pain in the neck. As a result, I
> had 'sendmail_enable="NO"' in my rc.conf.
> 
> For various reasons (including the fact that my system is now behind a
> firewall) I decided to start running sendmail and deleted that line
> from my rc.conf. I then CVSUPed (7/6 @ 18:00 UTC), rebuilt my system
> and tried to set up sendmail. Everything looked fine with the
> appropriate files in /etc/mail, but when I tried to invoke sendmail it
> get: sendmail: execing /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail: No such file or
> directory
> 
> I get about the same error using mail(1).
> 
> Any idea what is missing here? The /usr/libexec/sendmail directory
> exists, but is empty. /usr/src/libexec does not contain a sendmail
> directory at all. The man pages for sendmail are 2 years old and make
> no reference to any file in libexec.
> 
> Any clue as to what I'm missing?

The sendmail source is in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail. Do you have a,

  NO_SENDMAIL= true

In your /etc/make.conf?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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