Davi Leal said:
> * So, I execute "sendmailconfig" again: > Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.conf? [Y] > Reading configuration from /etc/mail/sendmail.conf. > Validating configuration. > Writing configuration to /etc/mail/sendmail.conf. > Writing /etc/cron.d/sendmail. > Configure sendmail with the existing /etc/mail/sendmail.mc? [Y] Reload > the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] Reloading > sendmail ... > > * I execute "ps -el | grep sendmail" and it does not show anything! > Installing the sendmail package from "testing" or from "unstable" solves > the problem, that is to say, it gets the sendmail process running, but it > shows the below message. Is that message important?. > > Starting Mail Transport Agent: sendmailWarning: Cannot use > HostStatusDirectory > = /var/lib/sendmail/host_status: No such file or directory > . it's not critical, sendmail caches responses it recieves from servers, so if a server is down it doesn't try to reconnect to that same server for a set period of time. you can always make the directory(be sure its writable by the sendmail program though). about all that will happen is the server may slow down a bit if you process a lot of email because if a remote server is down it will keep trying to connect and time out .. I had the same problem as you with sendmailconfig not working on one system, even purging sendmail and rm -rf /etc/mail and reinstalling didn't work, no matter what the config program would not generate a .cf file for me. so i gave up and installed postfix(that was a while ago, and since I have migrated much of my sendmail stuff to postfix+ldap) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
