[cobalt-users] Re: sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory

["Cedric Haindl" <c.haindl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cedric Haindl wrote and Jeff Lasman answered

>> my beloved shiny little Cobalt RaQ4r just sent me this one at 4 o'clock
in
>> the morning:
>>
>> subject:Cron <root@webbox> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
>> sh: /usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
>>
>> Has anyone ever heard of this one? There is no sendmail in this directory
>> obviously.

>On my RaQ3i, /usr/lib/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/sendmail,
>which is the executable sendmail program.

There was no symlink. Either it was deleted, or it may not have been there
at all. I added it and everything works smooth now.

>> I must admin that I deleted a site yesterday (but I did that
>> before too) and installed Urchin (a weblog analyzer).

> Shouldn't have affected anything.

> Do the following:

>$ ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail

>and see if you get anything.  Presuming you do, then everything is
>alright.  If not, then everything may still be alright, except that your
>RaQ4 may be set up differently from my RaQ3i.

>Do you know what program set up the cronfile?  Of course not <frown>;
>that's the disadvantage of automatic installs.

Either Urchin or Musita. It seems to be the latter, since Urchin does not
mail. I'll pray to Manitu (the creator of Musita). On the other hand, it
might have been something completely different. Who cares - as long as it
works ;-).

>So do this:

>$ ls -al /etc/cron.daily

>and see if there's a file with a recent date on it; that's probably the
>culprit.

>Or you can look through all the files.  Depending on what they do, you
>can either remove the offending file (which will stop the functionality
>included in that file, if it's not important), or you can create a
>symbolic link in /usr/lib, to /usr/sbin/sendmail.  To learn more, try

$ man ln

>> I sent them a mail
>> already,

>who is "them"?

Urchin (very nifty btw. especially for ISPs - much more userfriendly than
Webalizer and easier to install, but not for free!). They came up with the
same solution and stated, that they do not mess up with mail, so it might
have been musita.

> but just in case, that this is a common problem I dare to ask here
> as well

>I've never seen it before, but I don't have a RaQ4.

>Commercial help available if you require it.

Thanx for the offer ;-).

>Jeff

Cédric

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