Re: sendmail on debian testing

[Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org>]

I'm still searching for an answer to this.

After upgrade from wheezy to testing, sendmail no longer starts.

I see that the system is using systemd.  I see that the /etc/init.d/sendmail script now runs /bin/systemctl start sendmail.service.  But sendmail isn't started.  Even running '/bin/systemctl start sendmail.service' manually, nothing happens.

I don't see any obvious way to get any debug info out of systemctl.  

# systemctl is-enabled sendmail

Failed to get unit file state for sendmail.service: No such file or directory

and

# /bin/systemctl enable sendmail.service

Synchronizing state for sendmail.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...

Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d sendmail defaults

Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d sendmail enable

# systemctl is-enabled sendmail

Failed to get unit file state for sendmail.service: No such file or directory

On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> wrote:

Today I upgraded a test machine from wheezy to testing.

It seemed to install systemd, I'm not sure if it's using it or not.

One thing I noticed though was that sendmail no longer starts at boot. Even if I run:

/etc/init.d/sendmail start

or if I cd to /etc/mail and run:

make restart

or if I do this:

nothing except running 'sendmail -bd' will start sendmail.

In syslog I see this:

Jan 31 18:53:43 blah systemd[1]: Started LSB: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent.

in mail.log I don't see anything when I try to start sendmail via /etc/init.d/sendmail.

I do not have the lsb-invalid-mta package installed.  I have tried reinstalling the sendmail package.  I have tried the testing and unstable versions of sendmail.

Any ideas where I should look next to figure out what's going on?

Michael Grant