SYSERR(root) Can not exec /bin/mail: No such file or directory

[Don Lewis]

On 23 Jan, pirat wrote:
> On Friday, 23 January 2004 at  0:04:20 -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:04:20 -0800 (PST)
>> From: Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org>
>> Subject: Re: SYSERR(root) Can not exec /bin/mail: No such file or directory
>> To: pirat at access.inet.co.th
>> cc: freebsd-stable at FreeBSD.org
>> 
>> On 23 Jan, pirat wrote:
>> > hi sirs,
>> > 
>> > i hvae just noticed that if  /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer/local.m4 has
>> > a line that says
>> > 
>> > ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH', /bin/mail)')
>> > 
>> > will result in error at boot time.  i simply change that line to
>> > 
>> > ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH', /usr/bin/mail)')
>> > 
>> > and error disappears after doing make install at /etc/mail.  but i do not
>> > know of any side effects will happen.  my system is
>> > 
>> > [firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer # uname -a
>> > FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #3: Fri Jan 23 10:25:43
>> >  ICT 2004     root at firak.thai-aec.org:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/Firak  i386
>> > [firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer #
>> 
>> It looks like your sendmail .mc file (which is used to build your
>> sendmail.cf) is missing the
>> 	OSTYPE(freebsd4)
>> statement which pulls in
>> /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/ostype/freebsd4.m4,
>> which defines LOCAL_MAILER_PATH as /usr/libexec/mail.local.  You'll
>> probably want to use /etc/mail/freebsd.mc as the starting point for your
>> sendmail configuration.
>> 
> 
> yes it has but upon reboot for a few time `can not exec /bin/mail' still
> show up.  and that is why i have to edit local.m4 instead.
> 
> there is no sendmail.mc but freebsd.mc

Do you have a <HOSTNAME>.mc in /etc/mail?  If so, the Makefile will pick
that instead of freebsd.mc.

As long as the .mc file uses OSTYPE(freebsd4) and nothing else
overrides LOCAL_MAILER_PATH, the definition of LOCAL_MAILER_PATH in
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/ostype/freebsd4.m4 should override the
default in local.m4.

For doing final delivery to /var/mail/username you need to use
/usr/libexec/mail.local if you are running FreeBSD 4.x, unless you have
installed some other local delivery agent such as procmail, etc.

This is what I've got in my /etc/mail/freebsd.cf file, which is created
from freebsd.mc, on my 4.9-STABLE machine.

Mlocal,         P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, S=EnvFromSMT
P/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
                T=DNS/RFC822/SMTP,
                A=mail.local -l

I have not made any modifications to /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/*