Subject: pkg/15826: suggestion on nmh post install info
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <johnr@spimageworks.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/06/2002 20:20:08
>Number: 15826
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: suggestion on nmh post install info
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 06 20:21:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Refling
>Release: 1.5.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
i386...
>Description:
it would be great to add some info like the following to the
post install printout...
"If you are NOT running sendmail as a daemon (ie, you don't have
sendmail=YES in /etc/rc.conf), then you MUST compile nmh with
NMH_MTA=sendmail in /etc/mk.conf) for it to be able to send. It
will communicate by running /usr/sbin/sendmail directly.
If you ARE running sendmail as a daemon (sendmail=YES in /etc/rc.conf)
then the default compilation parameters (NMH_MTA=smtp) are OK for you
and nmh will communicate with sendmail on tcp port 25 (smtp).
The symptom of choosing the wrong one will be messages like:
post: problem initializing server; [BHST] no servers available"
This would save several hours' wasted time, especially since
NetBSD is installed now with sendmail=NO by default, at least
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. That makes this package not work by
default.
Thanks....
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