From: Noel Jones (njonesmegan.vbhcs.org)
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 18:19:52 CDT

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At 05:55 PM 4/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote:
>Just for the archives - so others might benefit.
>
>I stopped and uninstalled postfix, deleted all of the sendmail binaries I
>could find, then reinstalled postfix. For whatever reason, this didn't fix
>the problem. However, it did alter it - I got this in the syslog instead:
>
> atrun[1032]: exec failed for mail command: No such file or directory
>
>I went looking at my other FreeBSD boxes, and found this:
>
> tophat# ll /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 21 Nov 22 2005 /usr/sbin/sendmail ->
>/usr/sbin/mailwrapper
>
>This was missing on my problem system, so I put in the link per the above,
>and all now seems quite happy.
>
>Still don't know *why* it happened.
>
>Thanks to Wietse, Noel, and Magnus.
>
>
>Kurt

I don't recall you mentioning earlier that you were using FreeBSD.
If you installed postfix from the ports collection, there are
instructions displayed at the end of the install
(ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message) that tell how to disable sendmail.
This works quite well.

It's generally better to use the provided tools rather than fight the
system, something you may have to fight all over again next time you
apply system updates.

--
Noel Jones

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