Odd files in /etc/mail after 5.2->5.4 upgrade and mimedefang not working

Wayne Sierke ws+freebsd-questions at au.dyndns.ws
Mon May 30 13:16:27 PDT 2005


I'm trying to establish why I'm currently having a problem with my
sendmail/mimedefang setup after upgrading from 5.2 to 5.4. I found these
files in /etc/mail:

.mc
.cf
.submit.mc
.submit.cf


I thought this looked curious, albeit (to me) meaningless:

# diff -u freebsd.submit.cf .submit.cf
--- freebsd.submit.cf   Sun May 29 12:51:09 2005
+++ .submit.cf  Sun May 29 12:52:08 2005
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@
 #####
 #####          SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILE
 #####
-##### built by root@ on Sun May 29 12:49:16 CST 2005
-##### in /var/tmp/temproot/usr/obj/usr/src/etc/sendmail
-##### using /usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/ as
configuration include directory
+##### built by root@ on Sun May 29 12:52:08 CST 2005
+##### in /etc/mail
+##### using /usr/share/sendmail/cf/ as configuration include directory
 #####
 ######################################################################
 #####


Yes, there was a hiccup when running mergemaster. Unfortunately I don't
recall exactly what happened, except there was some finger trouble on my
part and I ran mergemaster a second time (which appeared to do what I
expected it to do, i.e. present me with a few files which I hadn't
correctly manipulated in the first attempt).

So I've removed and renamed the files in /etc/mail as I thought most
appropriate, run make and restarted sendmail but I still can't get
mimedefang operational - everything I've checked seems to be as it
should be, e.g.:

mailnull  44333  0.0  0.5  2684  1224  ??  I     4:34AM   0:00.01 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor -p /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.pid -m 2 -x 10 -U mailnull -b 600 -R 10000 -
mailnull  44336  0.0  9.8 25960 24524  ??  I     4:34AM   0:05.37 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server
mailnull  44346  0.0  0.4  1820  1104  ??  S     4:34AM   0:00.09 /usr/local/bin/mimedefang -P /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.pid -m /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang-multiplexor.sock -U mailnull
mailnull  44347  0.0  9.8 25960 24524  ??  I     4:34AM   0:05.30 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl -server

and I can't find any errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/maillog.
However neither spamassassin or clamav are being called.

How might I verify that the correct, updated files have ended up
in /etc/mail? Anything else I can verify re mimedefang?


Thanks,

Wayne




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