On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 02:03:25PM +0000, Michael Grant wrote: > > I'm still searching for an answer to this. > > > > After upgrade from wheezy to testing, sendmail no longer starts. > > > > I see that the system is using systemd. I see that the > /etc/init.d/sendmail script now runs /bin/systemctl start > sendmail.service. But sendmail isn't > > started. Even running '/bin/systemctl start sendmail.service' manually, > nothing happens. > > A nessesary correction - /etc/init.d/sendmail *tries* to run > '/bin/systemctl start sendmail.service'. > > But, since no sendmail* package provide systemd's service file - > nothing happens. > > Such behaviour cannot be considered systemd's bug IMO - systemd simply > does what it's intended to do in this case. > > But, at the same time, such behaviour can be considered as a sendmail > bug (given that systemd is Jessie's default init, and sendmail is not > starting with this init). > > Still, there's a way to workaround this. > > Try adding > > export _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT="true" > > to /etc/init.d/sendmail >
Thanks, this is progress, I can now start sendmail by hand by running '/etc/init.d/sendmail start', but it's not starting automatically at boot time. I don't know if this has anything to do with that: # systemctl enable sendmail Synchronizing state for sendmail.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d... Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d sendmail defaults Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d sendmail enable # systemctl is-enabled sendmail Failed to get unit file state for sendmail.service: No such file or directory also, a better place to add this: export _SYSTEMCTL_SKIP_REDIRECT="true" to is /etc/default/sendmail and not modify /etc/init.d/sendmail. Adding this to /etc/default/sendmail seems to work equally as well in that running '/etc/init.d/sendmail start' does manually start sendmail. Incidentally, the sendmail package even in experimental is significantly out of date. The package appears orphaned. Several people seem to have tried to step up to do something about this but nothing has happened. Is sendmail dead on Debian?
