Re: sendmail: no local mailer

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 10:26:03AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > evantd> Sendmail has not been working on my system for some time now. I
> > evantd> can't say exactly how long, but my guess is that it broke when I
> > evantd> upgraded to RELENG_5_0. This is how sendmail is invoked (by
> > evantd> default) and it's output.
> > 
> > evantd> # sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost
> > evantd> 451 4.0.0 No local mailer defined: Bad address
> > evantd> 554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
> > 
> > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf is a bogus (empty?) file.  One way to fix this is:
> > 
> > cd /etc/mail
> > mv sendmail.cf sendmail.cf~bogus
> > make
> > make restart
> 
> This happened on one of my -stable boxes lately when doing a upgrade
> using buildworld.  For some (unknown) reason m4 bombed out and created
> an empty .cf file.
> 
> I fixed it by doing something similar to what was done above, although
> why m4 failed is a mystery....

	Some patch:

--- /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile.orig Wed Apr  2 23:51:19 2003
+++ /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile Wed Apr  2 23:51:50 2003
_at__at_ -1,7 +1,7 _at__at_
 # _at_(#)Makefile 8.19 (Berkeley) 1/14/97
 # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/Makefile,v 1.21 2002/07/29 09:40:06 ru Exp $

-M4=          m4
+M4=          /usr/bin/m4
 CHMOD=       chmod
 ROMODE=        444
 RM=          rm -f

> 
> 
> 
> Nate
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