--- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
Looking at the sendmail startup script, there should be a line that says something like: daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q1h (paths may vary depending on your installation) If the "daemon" line does not look like this in your script, change it. "Daemon" is a function defined in the /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions file which is sourced in at the top of sendmail. It starts the passed program after doing some sanity checks and it allows all startup scripts to look/act alike. Good luck, Brad. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
