sendmail not starting at boot
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Wed Oct 5 23:23:44 PDT 2005
Annelise Anderson wrote:
> On 5.4-STABLE as of October 1, sendmail doesn't start on reboot.
> I have to either do it by hand or run sh rc.sendmail (which does
> start it). There's no sendmail.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.
Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base system by default, and not something in
/usr/local. You should have a /etc/rc.d/sendmail RC script...
> The rc.conf has sendmail_enable="YES" and I even changed this
> in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Don't change /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Change /etc/rc.conf only.
> I supposed I could clip some of rc.sendmail and put in in a
> sendmail.sh file for /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but perhaps something
> more obvious is wrong. I want sendmail to be not only a
> local mta but to be the incoming and outgoing server.
OK. Setting:
sendmail_enable="YES"
...ought to do the trick, so something else is going on.
Have you checked /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog?
Is your hostname set to a valid FQDN?
Is local DNS working properly on that machine?
Have you copied /etc/mail/freebsd.mc to /etc/mail/host.example.com.mc, editting
that file if and as needed, and doing a "make all" in /etc/mail? See
/etc/mail/README.
--
-Chuck
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