I have never seen or used "mta_start_script=" - based on what you sent, though, I doubt you are using it properly and I have no idea what the side effects of your approach will be. My scripts in/etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d start up fine without it (in 5.3. and 5.4). If it works, though, great - just be careful is isn't doing something unexpected, like preventing other necessary services in /etc/rc.conf from starting or something.
I find sendmail a bit confusing - it has several modes of operation (you can probably find out all about it in it's ridiculously long man page) - sendmail_enable="no", sendmail_enable="yes", sendmail_enable="none" and I recall (but this may be wrong) sendmail_enable="both". sendmail_enalbe="no" will still allow sendmail to send mail out that it gets a hold of, and thos may be what you want for admin messages and the like that XMail may not retrieve. This is actually how I do it. The process you have running I'm not so certain about - sendmail still looks active, but given what you wrote I don't know in what "mode". Jeff Ross Gohlke wrote: >The good news is, XMail is finally running properly. The bad news is, I'm >not exactly sure how. > > > >>To prevent sendmal from runnig under Freebsd, add to /etc/rc.conf the >> >> >following: "sendmail_enable = NONE". However, I don't know why >sendmail would interfere with CtrlClnt, or if it would. You can do a ps > > > >>-alx | grep sendmail to see if it's running. >> >> > >I did try to turn off sendmail. When I rebooted, Xmail started up fine, >and I could use CtrlClnt. > >/etc/rc.sendmail ># This script is used by /etc/rc at boot time to start sendmail. It # is >meant to be sendmail specific and not a generic script for all # MTAs. It >is only called by /etc/rc if the rc.conf mta_start_script is # set to >/etc/rc.sendmail. This provides the opportunity for other MTAs # to >provide their own startup script. > >/etc/defaults/rc.conf >mta_start_script="/etc/rc.sendmail" > >SO I ADDED THIS LINE TO /etc/rc.conf ABOVE OTHER SERVICES >mta_start_script="/usr/local/etc/rc.d/xmailserverstart.sh" > >Then I rebooted. > >Funny thing is, NONE of the services defined in /etc/rc.conf (except >IPFILTER) are starting up on reboot, and "ps" yields the exact same >results as reported before for sendmail: > > >>james# ps -alx | grep sendmail > >> 0 394 390 164 8 0 1632 1100 wait I+ con 0:00.00 > >>/bin/sh /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOpt > >> 0 395 394 164 116 0 2772 1804 select I+ con 0:00.01 > >>/usr/sbin/sendmail.xmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptio > >Here's to happy XMailing! > >ross > >PS Happy Father's Day to those who code with kids. > > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
