sendmail won't start

[Brad De Vries]

--- Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> 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?
> 
> -- 
>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> L. Friedman                       	      
> netllama at linux-sxs.org
> Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: 		   
> http://netllama.ipfox.com

Looking at the sendmail startup script, there should
be a line that says something like:
daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h
(paths may vary depending on your installation)

If the "daemon" line does not look like this in your
script, change it.

"Daemon" is a function defined in the
/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions file which is sourced in at
the top of sendmail.  It starts the passed program
after doing some sanity checks and it allows all
startup scripts to look/act alike.

Good luck,
Brad.

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