sendmail woes

Ruben de Groot fbsd-q at bzerk.org
Wed Apr 9 07:38:07 PDT 2003


On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:46:30PM +0930, Brian Astill typed:
[...]
> bra at BAPhD /etc/mail #make stop ; make restart
> Stopping:/etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
> /etc/rc.sendmail: stop-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid not found
> .
> Restarting:/etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mta: /var/run/sendmail.pid not found
> /etc/rc.sendmail: restart-mspq: /var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid 
> not found
> 
> What does this tell us - other than that sendmail still isn't loading?

It tells us that sendmail wasn't running. You can neither stop nor restart
something that wasn't started in the first place. Try make start.

> 
> --
> Brian
> 
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