Hi all, I installed woody in a partition for experiment. I first installed exim and recently tried to change sendmail and encountered the problem, that is, postinst of sendmail (8.11.0.NonTLS-1) failed to generate sendmail.cf as follows;
You may wish to customize your alias database; see the aliases(5) man page for information on the format and use of the /etc/aliases file. Updating sendmail databases ... Checking sendmail.cf and databases. egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory egrep: /etc/mail/databases: No such file or directory Reload the running sendmail now with the new configuration? [Y] n and in fact there was no /etc/mail/databases. But with upgrading, that is, if one installed sendmail_8.9.3-23 of potato first and then installed sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1, it worked fine as follows; nsx:/home/kohda# dpkg -i sendmail_8.9.3-23.deb dpkg - warning: downgrading sendmail from 8.11.0.NonTLS-1 to 8.9.3-23. (Reading database ... 73442 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sendmail 8.11.0.NonTLS-1 (using sendmail_8.9.3-23.deb) ... (snip) ... Automagically regenerate the sendmail.cf configuration file? (Y/n) Checking sendmail.cf and databases. Scanning /etc/mail/sendmail.mc ... (snip) ... they will work with the newer sendmail. You will have to do this yourself - before starting sendmail. nsx:/home/kohda# dpkg -i sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1.deb (Reading database ... 73423 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace sendmail 8.9.3-23 (using sendmail_8.11.0.NonTLS-1.deb) ... (snip) ... Automagically regenerate the sendmail.cf configuration file? (Y/n) Saving old /etc/mail/sendmail.cf as /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.old ... Checking sendmail.cf and databases. Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf... Informational: use_ct_file file empty: /etc/mail/trusted-users Informational: use_cw_file file empty: /etc/mail/local-host-names Informational: confCR_FILE source file not found: /etc/mail/relay-domains Informational: confUSERDB_SPEC source file not found: /etc/mail/users Moving /etc/aliases to /etc/mail/aliases and linking /etc/aliases to /etc/mail/aliases This preserves current function/abilities Warning: Option: CACERTPath requires TLS support Warning: Option: CACERTFile requires TLS support Warning: Option: ServerCertFile requires TLS support Warning: Option: Serverkeyfile requires TLS support Warning: Option: ClientCertFile requires TLS support Warning: Option: Clientkeyfile requires TLS support /etc/mail/aliases: 31 aliases, longest 10 bytes, 306 bytes total ... (snip) ... they will work with the newer sendmail. You will have to do this yourself - before starting sendmail. I can not find the reason of this problem and don't know this really is the problem or only my failure. Thanks in advance, 2000.8.16 -- Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian Atsuhito Kohda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
