topic Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Olga_1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:18:16 GMT

Hello,
I have upgraded 8.11 sendmail to 8.13 on HP-UX itanium 11.23.

I noticed that there is a new startup script that is trying to start sendmail and sm-client (which was not the case in 8.11).
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 42 Jun 18 16:30 sendmail -> /usr/contrib/sendmail/sbin/init.d/sendmail

Starting sendmail [ OK ]
Starting sm-client [FAILED]

sendmail[22529]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases rebuilt by root
sendmail[22529]: /etc/mail/aliases: 9 aliases, longest 64 bytes, 223 bytes total
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[22512]: /etc/mail/aliases: 9 aliases, longest 64 bytes, 223 bytes total
sm-mta[22532]: starting daemon (@(#)Sendmail version 8.13.3 - Revision 1.005 - 15 November 2007): SMTP+queuei
ng@00:30:00
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[22512]: /etc/mail/submit.cf is missing
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[22512]: Sendmail client not started

I do not have submit.cf and it was never configured.
How can I disable the client startup. Can I use old sendmail startup script that came with version 8.11?
Thank you.

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Ivan Krastev — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:46:50 GMT

See chapter about migrating to sendmail 8.13 - http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-2338/5992-2338.pdf

page 14.

regards,
ivan

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Olga_1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:41:14 GMT

Thank you, Ivan. But I am not sure if I need MSP. What is it?

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:27:43 GMT

Shalom,

I've seen this work and not work on Linux and HP-UX for some years now. The sm-client as far as I can tell does not do any work that I care about.

SEP

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Olga_1 — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:53:40 GMT

Thank you, Steven. I think that I do not need the client, but how to disable it's startup? Modify the sendmail script or use old sendmail startup script that came with version 8.11?

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Dennis Handly — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:17:29 GMT

>Modify the sendmail script

If the sendmail script was written correctly it should source a config file and that should have something to disable it. Try looking at /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs?

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Olga_1 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:31:15 GMT

Thank you, Dennis, but this file has nothing that would prevent starting the cm-client.

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Dennis Handly — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:45:24 GMT

>but this file has nothing that would prevent starting the cm-client.

Is there anything in your /sbin/init.d/sendmail?

Re: sendmail 8.13 sm-client startup

Olga_1 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:03:56 GMT

As per HP support, MSP has to be configured.