sendmail fails to generate sendmail.cf

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

Hi all,

I installed woody in a partition for experiment.  I first installed
exim and recently tried to change sendmail and encountered the problem,
that is, postinst of sendmail (8.11.0.NonTLS-1) failed to generate
sendmail.cf as follows;

   You may wish to customize your alias database; see the aliases(5) man page
   for information on the format and use of the /etc/aliases file.
   
   Updating sendmail databases ...
   Checking sendmail.cf and databases.
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory
   Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] n

and in fact there was no /etc/mail/databases.

But with upgrading, that is, if one installed sendmail_8.9.3-23 of 
potato first and then installed sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1, it worked
fine as follows;

   nsx:/home/kohda# dpkg -i sendmail_8.9.3-23.deb 
   dpkg - warning: downgrading sendmail from 8.11.0.NonTLS-1 to 8.9.3-23.
   (Reading database ... 73442 files and directories currently installed.)
   Preparing to replace sendmail 8.11.0.NonTLS-1 (using sendmail_8.9.3-23.deb)
   ...
   (snip)
   ...
   Automagically regenerate the sendmail.cf configuration file? (Y/n) 
   Checking sendmail.cf and databases.
   Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
   ...
   (snip)
   ...
   they will work with the newer sendmail.  You will have to do this
   yourself - before starting sendmail.
   
   nsx:/home/kohda# dpkg -i sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1.deb 
   (Reading database ... 73423 files and directories currently installed.)
   Preparing to replace sendmail 8.9.3-23 (using sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1.deb)
   ...
   (snip)
   ...
   Automagically regenerate the sendmail.cf configuration file? (Y/n) 
   Saving old /etc/mail/sendmail.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.old ...
   Checking sendmail.cf and databases.
   Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf...
   Informational: use_ct_file file empty: /etc/mail/trusted-users
   Informational: use_cw_file file empty: /etc/mail/local-host-names
   Informational: confCR_FILE source file not found: /etc/mail/relay-domains
   Informational: confUSERDB_SPEC source file not found: /etc/mail/users
   Moving /etc/aliases to /etc/mail/aliases 
   and linking /etc/aliases to /etc/mail/aliases
   This preserves current function/abilities
   Warning: Option: CACERTPath requires TLS support
   Warning: Option: CACERTFile requires TLS support
   Warning: Option: ServerCertFile requires TLS support
   Warning: Option: Serverkeyfile requires TLS support
   Warning: Option: ClientCertFile requires TLS support
   Warning: Option: Clientkeyfile requires TLS support
   /etc/mail/aliases: 31 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 306 bytes total
   ...
   (snip)
   ... 
   they will work with the newer sendmail.  You will have to do this
   yourself - before starting sendmail.

I can not find the reason of this problem and don't know this
really is the problem or only my failure.

Thanks in advance,		 2000.8.16

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 Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.