The old script was called mta. What if you try that instead? Or, just write your own script. The startup scripts are complicated only because they need to do a lot of figuring out where things are, etc. Since you know where things are, a startup script customized for your machine might be very simple.
Joel On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:35:33PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: > I'm trying to do something that is admittedly a bit foolish. I'm trying to > get the sendmail RPM from Redhat-7.3 working on my ancient Caldera box. > There's really not much Caldera left in it, as I've been upgrading it > piecemeal to assorted Redhat RPMs for a while now, but it was last an > amalgam of COL-2.4 & 3.1. > > At any rate, I got sendmail-8.11.6-27.73 RPM installed, and running the > sendmail binary manually does work. Its just the initscript that came with > it that fails to work. If i run "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" i get: > Starting sendmail: Usage: daemon program > > I can start sendmail manually with "sendmail -bd -q1h", and it backgrounds > itself just fine, so its something wonky in the initscript. Anyone have > any suggestions on what might be wrong here? > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com > > 7:25pm up 1 day, 1:49, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.08 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
