Re: [woody] sendmail bug?. Yes, it is
Davi Leal said:
> * So, I execute "sendmailconfig" again:
> Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.conf? [Y]
> Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
> Validating configuration.
> Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf.
> Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail.
> Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Reload
> the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] Reloading
> sendmail ...
>
> * I execute "ps -el | grep sendmail" and it does not show anything!
> Installing the sendmail package from "testing" or from "unstable" solves
> the problem, that is to say, it gets the sendmail process running, but it
> shows the below message. Is that message important?.
>
> Starting Mail Transport Agent: sendmailWarning: Cannot use
> HostStatusDirectory
> = /var/lib/sendmail/host_status: No such file or directory
> .
it's not critical, sendmail caches responses it recieves from
servers, so if a server is down it doesn't try to reconnect to
that same server for a set period of time. you can always make
the directory(be sure its writable by the sendmail program though).
about all that will happen is the server may slow down a bit if
you process a lot of email because if a remote server is down it will
keep trying to connect and time out ..
I had the same problem as you with sendmailconfig not working on
one system, even purging sendmail and rm -rf /etc/mail and reinstalling
didn't work, no matter what the config program would not generate
a .cf file for me. so i gave up and installed postfix(that was a while
ago, and since I have migrated much of my sendmail stuff to postfix+ldap)
nate
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