make restart receives strange output

[Noah]

sendmail-8.12.3
FreeBSD-4.9


can somebody please explain to me why "Restarting:--: not found" is displayed
when I restart sendmail?   this started recently.


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# cd /etc/mail
# make restart
Restarting:--: not found
 sendmail sendmail-clientmqueue.
# 

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and from /etc/mail/Makefile

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#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/mail/Makefile,v 1.9.2.26 2004/06/06 17:29:48 gshapiro Exp $
#
# This Makefile provides an easy way to generate the configuration
# file and database maps for the sendmail(8) daemon.
#


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cheers,

Noah