Unresponsive 150.clean-hoststat

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jaymax

I receive this message daily in my 'daily report output'
Code: 
Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache:
/etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat: purgestat: Permission denied
My permissions are correctly set, as far as I can perceive
Code: 
ll /etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  593 Apr 30  2009 /etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat*
Can't find anything on the man pages

What could be the problem?

Thanks!
 
You were correct in the purgestat querry
Code: 
	# ll /usr/sbin/purgestat
	lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  21 Nov 22  2009 /usr/sbin/purgestat@ -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
but
Code: 
	# ll /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
	----------  1 root  wheel  5676 Apr 30  2009 /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
running
Code: 
	# /usr/sbin/purgestat
	/usr/sbin/purgestat: Permission denied.
	# chmod 700 /usr/sbin/mailwrapper
Now
Code: 
	# /usr/sbin/purgestat
	mailwrapper: no mapping in /etc/mail/mailer.conf
And
Code: 
	# cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf
	#
	# Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
	#
	   sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
	   send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
	   mailq           /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
	   newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
now qmail is my MTA and the original sendmail was replaced by qmail's sendmail, is that the reason for the "no mapping" complaint by purgestat for mailer.conf? The man pages were not too clear about this.

Thanks!
 
Wait, you're using qmail but have a postfix mailer.conf? Either you have old files left over--another thing the ports system fixes--or there's something else going on.
 
Ok that might explain some of my qmail problems. These must have been left over files. How should I fix this then? Any recommendations
 
jaymax said:
Ok that might explain some of my qmail problems. These must have been left over files. How should I fix this then? Any recommendations
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Ports will prevent these kinds of files. When you deinstall a port or package, it gets rid of all of the files it installed. Usually, anyway.

If you've installed from source without using ports, it's up to you to hunt down all those files and get rid of them. If the files ended up in the right (standard FreeBSD) locations, you can install the port, then deinstall it.
 
I do not recall explicitly installing Postfix, however I was able to do a
Code: 
 pkg_deinstall postfix-2.7.1,1
as pkg_info found it in the pkg_db. However on completion the following were still present.

/usr/sbin/purgestat
/usr/sbin/mailwrapper
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail

Should I just go ahead and delete them? I am not sure what files would have been in the Postfix installation. Would this Postfix installation be installed in a default OS Upgrade ?
 
jaymax said:
I do not recall explicitly installing Postfix, however I was able to do a
Code: 
 pkg_deinstall postfix-2.7.1,1
as pkg_info found it in the pkg_db.
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That's good, although I'd prefer postfix over qmail.

However on completion the following were still present.
/usr/sbin/purgestat
/usr/sbin/mailwrapper
/usr/local/sbin/sendmail
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Do an ls -l on those, they should all go through mailwrapper(8). I don't know what Postfix does on deinstall. Probably you should deinstall qmail also, and then finally install the one you want to use. On install, it should set up mailwrapper.
 
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