Exim startup problem

Hi !

I have problem with exim on startup freebsd 5.3
exim abandoned: unknown, malformed
Se below

Where can i find this startup script/line?

Q0047: On a reboot, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message
Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz
sendmail. What does this mean?

A0047: -bz is a Sendmail option requesting it to create a `configuration
freeze file'. Exim has no such concept and so does not support the option.
You probably have a line like

/usr/lib/sendmail -bzin some start-up script (e.g. /etc/init.d/mail)
immedately before

/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m

//Jan
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Hello Mr Ping,

Mr Ping schrieb/wrote:

> I have problem with exim on startup freebsd 5.3
> exim abandoned: unknown, malformed
> Se below

Is that all output you get?

> Where can i find this startup script/line?

Take a look at /usr/local/etc. Somewhere in that directory you sgould
find the init scripts.

Nevertheless, I suppose that there is something faulty with your exim
configuration. Have you tried invoking exim "manually"?

Regards,
Christian
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Hi Christian!

Yes that all i get exim abandoned: unknown, malformed
After that my exim starts ok.

But i want to get rid of this error msg.

This is what i have in my /usr/local/etc

[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc] # ls -l
total 378
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 20 16:14 apache2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 21 12:23 exim
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 236 Dec 10 13:54 freebsd-update.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 236 Oct 25 05:06 freebsd-update.conf.sample
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 468 Oct 25 07:16 logrotate.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 468 Nov 11 00:45 logrotate.conf.sample
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 11 00:45 logrotate.d
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 139964 Dec 18 05:55 lynx.cfg
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 139964 Dec 18 05:55 lynx.cfg.default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 24 22:32 pam.d
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Jan 21 12:23 periodic
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 13744 Jan 5 16:59 pkgtools.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 13744 Jan 5 16:59 pkgtools.conf.sample
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 704 Jan 5 16:59 pkgtools.status-pkg.sh
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 633 Dec 18 05:37 portaudit.conf.sample
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1549 Oct 26 12:56 proftpd.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2359 Dec 24 16:07 proftpd.conf.default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 277 Oct 24 20:43 qadsl.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 275 Nov 10 22:25 qadsl.conf.sample
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 21 12:23 rc.d
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 30893 Nov 10 22:24 rc.subr
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 766 Nov 10 23:39 rsyncd.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 766 Nov 10 23:39 rsyncd.conf.sample
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4020 Nov 10 23:56 wgetrc
[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc] #

I have try to seartch find the string 'sendmail -b*' also

[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc] # find . -name 'sendmail -b*' -print
[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc] # cd rc.d/
[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc/rc.d] # find . -name 'sendmail -b*' -print
[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc/rc.d] # ls -l
total 12
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 413 Jan 5 16:59 000.pkgtools.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1190 Jan 7 03:21 exim.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 663 Dec 5 2003 proftpd.conf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 653 Dec 24 16:07 proftpd.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 348 Nov 10 22:25 qadsl.sh
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 609 Nov 10 23:39 rsyncd.sh
[root@bsd:/usr/local/etc/rc.d] #

Any sugestion?

//Jan

Christian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello Mr Ping,
>
> Mr Ping schrieb/wrote:
>
>> I have problem with exim on startup freebsd 5.3
>> exim abandoned: unknown, malformed
>> Se below
>
> Is that all output you get?
>
>> Where can i find this startup script/line?
>
> Take a look at /usr/local/etc. Somewhere in that directory you sgould
> find the init scripts.
>
> Nevertheless, I suppose that there is something faulty with your exim
> configuration. Have you tried invoking exim "manually"?
>
> Regards,
> Christian

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Email address is in ROT13

Hello Mr Ping,

Mr Ping schrieb/wrote:

> Yes that all i get exim abandoned: unknown, malformed
> After that my exim starts ok.
>
> But i want to get rid of this error msg.
>
> This is what i have in my /usr/local/etc
>
> [root@bsd:/usr/local/etc] # ls -l
> total 378
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 21 12:23 rc.d

Take a look into this directory. It should contain a script called
"exim.sh" or similar that is responsible for starting and stopping the
exim daemon.

> I have try to seartch find the string 'sendmail -b*' also

IMO there should be a file somewhere in /etc/mail that defines all the
"calls" to the MTA. Maybe the entries still point to sendmail and not
yet towards your exim binary?

> [root@bsd:/usr/local/etc/rc.d] # ls -l
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1190 Jan 7 03:21 exim.sh

OK, that's the exim start script.

Have you tried testing your exim configuration using exim's option
"-bt"? Take a look at "man exim" for further information.

Yours,
Christian
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