topic Re: sendmail tae not found in Operating System - HP-UX

sendmail tae not found

Mimihpux — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:18:41 GMT

When I start sendmail daemon get this msg:
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[37]: tae: not found.
sendmail has already been started

What does it mean?

Re: sendmail tae not found

OldSchool — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:25:52 GMT

Re: sendmail tae not found

Pete Randall — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:27:37 GMT

It means that line 37 of the /sbin/init.d/sendmail script has something strange called "tae" init that the shell has no idea how to find or what to do with.

Pete

Re: sendmail tae not found

Mimihpux — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:44:21 GMT

Line 37 /sbin/init.d/sendmail is ok:
. /etc/rc.config

the /etc/rc.config file is ok,

About /etc/rc.config.d directory, how can I know what files souldn't be there?

Re: sendmail tae not found

Tim Nelson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:47:23 GMT

>>About /etc/rc.config.d directory, how can I know what files souldn't be there?

That question is like "which came first" the chicken or the egg" nobody really knows.

cd /etc/rc.config.d
grep tae *

Just might find a bogus or corrupt file.

Re: sendmail tae not found

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:22:34 GMT

HI:

This kind of error typically means that you have a syntax error in one of the 'rc.config.d' files *or* you have placed something extraneous in the '/etc/rc.config.d' directory.

Verify that your '/etc/rc.config.d' directory only contains appropriate files.

If you look at the script, '/etc/rc.config' you will see that it *is* ok to have backup file copies as long as their names contain [.,~#]. That is, 'netconf.old' is an acceptable backup but 'netconfold' is not.

Verify the contents of this directory by doing:

# for FILE in $(ls /etc/rc.config.d/*)
> do
> ls ${FILE}
> . ${FILE}
> done

This will source (read) every file as if the nomral startup sequence is running. The action will stop if there is any file with syntax errors and the 'ls' will identify the offender. Note the "dot-space-filename" syntax in the above code.

By the way, afterwards, you can also see from a 'ls -ul' which files were not sourced, because they were regarded as backup copies and were skipped.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: sendmail tae not found

Mimihpux — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:07:38 GMT

Sorry, tae file or similar doesn't exist in /etc/rc.config.d

I found nddconf.bak and other that can't be there...and I remove it.

I don't see the message anymore.

Thanks a lot

Re: sendmail tae not found

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:20:48 GMT

Hi:

> I found nddconf.bak and other that can't be there...and I remove it. I don't see the message anymore. I don't see the message anymore.

If your problem has been solved, please read:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: sendmail tae not found

Mimihpux — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:29:45 GMT

go into /sbin/init.d and read the script "sendmail"...what's on line 37.

it appears that the start-up script you have may be corrupted. In mine, that's an "if" test.

alternatively, there may be junk in the directory /etc/rc.config.d that doesn't belong
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I found nddconf.bak and other file that doesn't be on /etc/rc.config.d, and message doens't appear anymore.