sendmail won't start

[Net Llama!]

On 11/19/03 19:59, Joel Hammer wrote:

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

# /etc/init.d/mta start
WARNING: Mail Transfer Agent sendmail selected but not installed.

Sure, i could debug where it expects sendmail to be, but i'm feeling lazy :)

> 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.

Yea, i could do that.  I was just hoping to stay true to the RPM, rather 
than replacing it.

> 
> 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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