recursion too deep

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

I have a K360/HP-UX 10.20.

When I manuall stop the sendmail it gives a message "recursion too deep" and doesn't stop sendmail.

What is this error and what needs to be done to resolve this?

Thanks,

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

Possibly you've got a macro definition problem, i.e. one macro text contains another macro, but this macro refers back to the original macro, so you get excessive recursion.

Post your sendmail.cf if possible.

rgds, Robin

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Robin,

I have attached my sendmail.cf.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi Robin,

I have attached my sendmail.cf.

[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

# cd /etc/mail
# mv sendmail.cf org.sendmail.cf
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
/sbin/init.d/sendmail[116]: .: recursion too deep.

Even if the sendmail.cf file is not available it gives the same error.

I have copied sendmail.cf from another server but still the same error when I try to stop sendmail.

Any idea?

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Try sendmail start

then sendmail stop


Paula

[Bruno Vidal]

Hi,
It sound like that you have bad file under /etc/rc.config.d
ie: [116] mean error at line 116 of this script.
Go and look at this line: it is:
. /etc/rc.config

-> it source all files under /etc/rc.config.d
Under this directory you shouldn't have any scripts, it should be only variables. Try to execute . /etc/rc.config and try to add a set -x in it in order to find which files is wrong.
Good luck.

[Michael Steele_2]

See if you have duplicate files in /etc/rc.config.d, most notably for sendmail.

Here's are two related links for 'recursion too deep' and sendmail was not indicated in either:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x184eaf48a9e5d5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xadba3a7b3682d611abdb0090277a778c,00.html

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Sanjiv,

Look at your /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs script. Make sure it is not the same as /sbin/init.d/sendmail script. Basically it should not have anything other than the following.

SENDMAIL_SERVER=1
export SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME=

+ some comments.

-Sri

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

If you are using the sendmail start/stop script, run the script in debug mode and see what happens at the end:

sh -x /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

You may see the script calling something unexpected or following a strange PATH location.

[Martin Robinson]

At a guess from the message you have posted, /etc/rc.config is itself calling /etc/r.config - hence 'recursion too deep'.