[rancid] sendmail

[Daniel Schmidt]

I did a grep:

$ grep SENDMAIL etc/rancid.conf
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"

Looks right to me.  Don't get any other errors.  Strange!

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:10 AM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 09:52:56AM -0700, Daniel Schmidt:
> > Thanks, that is what I thought.  That said, I did have it set.  I'm
> baffled
> > as to why it didn't work till I made the control_rancid change.  I call
> > rancid-run as sudo -i -u rancid, but I don't believe that should make a
> > difference.  Strange.
>
> it should not; control_rancid should explicitly read rancid.conf prior to
> that line.  Is there a typo in your rancid.conf perhaps?
>
> > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:47 PM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 06:33:27PM -0700, Daniel Schmidt:
> > > > $ grep SENDMAIL etc/rancid.conf
> > > > SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> > > > $ grep SENDMAIL /var/lib/rancid/bin/control_rancid
> > > > # SENDMAIL location
> > > > SENDMAIL=${SENDMAIL:=/usr/sbin/sendmail};
> > > >
> > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I shouldn't have had to make that
> change to
> > > > control_rancid for it to work right.  Shouldn't control_rancid use
> the
> > > > /etc/rancid.conf variable?  What am I missing?
> > >
> > > if its not set in rancid.conf, it sets a default.
> > >
> >
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