sendmail won't start

[Joel Hammer]

The old script was called mta. What if you try that instead?

Or, just write your own script. The startup scripts are complicated
only because they need to do a lot of figuring out where things are,
etc. Since you know where things are, a startup script customized for
your machine might be very simple.

Joel

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:35:33PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
> I'm trying to do something that is admittedly a bit foolish.  I'm trying to 
> get the sendmail RPM from Redhat-7.3 working on my ancient Caldera box. 
> There's really not much Caldera left in it, as I've been upgrading it 
> piecemeal to assorted Redhat RPMs for a while now, but it was last an 
> amalgam of COL-2.4 & 3.1.
> 
> At any rate, I got sendmail-8.11.6-27.73 RPM installed, and running the 
> sendmail binary manually does work.  Its just the initscript that came with 
> it that fails to work.  If i run "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" i get:
> Starting sendmail: Usage: daemon program
> 
> I can start sendmail manually with "sendmail -bd -q1h", and it backgrounds 
> itself just fine, so its something wonky in the initscript.  Anyone have 
> any suggestions on what might be wrong here?
> 
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