Strange startup behavior on 5.3-release

[David Jenkins]

On Mon, 13 December, 2004 23:56, Mike Meyer said:
> I'm running 5.3-release, and seeing *very* strange behavior on
> startup.
>
> If I reboot the system, I get the following errors in
> /var/log/console.log:
>
> Dec 13 17:38:59 guru kernel: Starting sshd.
> Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: illegal option -- L
> Dec 13 17:39:00 guru kernel: sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [
> -fsender ] [ -Fname ] [ -bp ] [
>  -bs ] [ arg ... ]
>
> I'm getting those errors because sendmail is set to
> /var/qmail/bin/sendmail in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Since I'm running
> qmail, sendmail should be run *at all* at startup.
>
> The really strange thing is that if I shutdown and then restart the
> system, without a reboot, I don't see these error messages.
>
> I've traced this down to the sendmail_msp_queue_enable variable in
> /etc/rc.conf. If set to yes, that invokes sendmail with the -L option.
>
> There don't appear to be any currently filed bugs related to this
> issue, and google didn't turn up anything relevant.
>
> I'm running the GENERIC kernel. I've attached my /etc/rc.conf in case
> something there is pertinent.

After you installed qmail (from ports?) were there any instructions on
how you should modify /etc/rc.conf?

I use Postfix, and after I installed that from the ports tree, it told
me to add the following entries to rc.conf

dj : ~> cat /etc/rc.conf | grep -i sendmail
sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd"
sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

Maybe that's some help?

Cheers,
David