problem starting Mailscanner

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sun Jan 11 15:10:43 GMT 2004


Please can you cut and paste the lines into an email, and not retype them. 
There are many apparent typing errors in the lines you have shown us, and 
we really do need to see the exact original lines.

At 15:03 11/01/2004, you wrote:
>O.K !! here is /etc/init.d/sendmail lines 47 to 54
>
>line 47 done
>line 48 fi
>line 49 deamon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd OPrivacy=queueonly
>-0QUEUEDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
>line 50 sendmail q15m
>line 51 $([-n "QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
>line 52 RETVAL=$?
>line 53 echo
>line 54[RETVAL -eq0] 77 touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
>
>please help
>
>thanks
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:12 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: problem starting Mailscanner
>
>
>On Sunday 11 January 2004 2:10 pm, çåàï wrote:
>
> > Hi !!
> >
> > I am trying to configure sendmail on RH 8 .
> >
> > whan I issue the command /etc/init.d/sendmail restart I receive:
> >
> > /etc/init.d/sendmail :line 51: -q1h :command not found  [ok]
>
>Looks like you've split the sendmail command across two lines - "-q1h" is an
>
>option which should follow sendmail on the same line.
>
>If that doesn't answer it, post lines 47 to 54 of /etc/init.d/sendmail and
>we'll look in more detail.
>
>Antony.
>
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