Summary: experiences with NanoBSD,
successes and nits on a Soekris 4801
Ade Lovett
ade at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 20 04:03:07 GMT 2005
Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
>>XXX I get a sendmail warning every boot:
>>
>> sendmail: execing /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail: No such file or
>> directory
>>
>> This is likely vi.recover running and trying to do something with
>> sendmail. Unhelpful, given no sendmail is present. Maybe a better
>> failure mode is desirable here?
>
>
> Just for anyone researching this, it isn't a sendmail error, it
> is mailwrapper.
Well, yes and no. There is a specific issue of having the boot-time
vi.recover stuff run before the mail system (as defined by mailer.conf)
is actually ready.
A good example of this would be to take exim, postfix, qmail, whatever,
and link in mysql support, changing /etc/mail/mailer.conf appropriately
for the "sendmail" entry.
Since the mysql libraries are in a "non-standard" place
(/usr/local/lib/mysql), and haven't yet been ldconfig'd in, in such a
situation you'll see "odd" failures at boot up, iff there are vi
sessions to recover as a result of a previous system failure.
As to a real solution, I'm not sure. Perhaps an appropriate "mta"
keyword for PROVIDE/REQUIRE?
-aDe
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