Re: sendmail: no local mailer

> > > 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
> 

This shouldn't be necessary, since m4 is in the path in buildworld, is
it not?  Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to run make, cc, or any other
tools.



Nate