[rancid] Re: Issues with Sendmail using Rancid

[john heasley]

Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:39:52AM -0800, Joel Krauska:
> Look at the code.
> 
> I had a similar problem..
> I had to explicitly reference /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> (/usr/sbin wasn't in the path for the rancid user I set up)

then alter PATH in rancid.conf.  the configure script should have found
it and included /usr/sbin in the path.

> Type 'which sendmail' to figure out where you sendmail binary is and then try replacing the 5 lines in control_rancid that have "sendmail" with "/usr/sbin/sendmail"..
> (or whatever 'which' tells you)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> vishal.ud wrote:
> > Right  , so i was intending to use our external smtp server . I edited 
> > the below mentioned file (using UBuntu btw) . restarted sendmail . 
> > However , i still get the
> > /home/rancid/bin/control_rancid: 477: sendmail: not found error
> > 
> > 
> > Mahaffey, Brian wrote:
> >> You may be missing your Relay if you send mail through another server.
> >>
> >> you can edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf or /etc/sendmail.cf depend on your
> >> operating system.
> >>
> >> and edit as 
> >>
> >> # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
> >> DS<mailserver_hostname>
> >>
> >> example
> >> DSmail.domain.com (remove the "< & >")
> >>
> >> Restart Sendmail
> >>
> >> -
> > 
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