[csw-maintainers] Error installing sendmail

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi folks,

I just updated the dublin build hosts and got the following install error for sendmail
which aborted the whole update process (btw, it is really bad that an update is hard
stopped under any issue as it can not be continued and leaves a system in a half-baked
state and I don't know what packages are missing now).

Best regards

  -- Dago

> => Installing CSWsendmail-8.14.5,REV=2012.03.11 (300/507) ...
> Please see /opt/csw/share/doc/sendmail/license for license information.
> pkgadd: ERROR: unable to create package object </var/opt/csw/spool/clientmqueue>.
>     pathname does not exist
>     owner name <smmsp> not found in passwd table(s)
> ERROR: attribute verification of </var/opt/csw/spool/clientmqueue> failed
>     owner name <smmsp> not found in passwd table(s)
> Registering 'sendmail' alternative /opt/csw/bin/mailq.sendmail ...
> Installing class <cswusergroup> ...
> Group smmsp already exists
> User smmsp has been added
> Updating account 'smmsp' to be no-login (NP)
> 
> Group mail already exists
> No user to create
> 
> ----8<---- migration configuration start ----8<----
> MIGRATE_FILES="aliases helpfile local-host-names sendmail.cf submit.cf trusted-users"
> SOURCE_DIR___default__="/opt/csw/etc/mail"
> DEST_DIR___default__="/etc/opt/csw/mail"
> ----8<---- migration configuration end   ----8<----
> 
> *******************************************************************
> * Files will be now migrated from the deprecated location          
> * (e.g. /opt/csw/etc) to the new location (e.g. /etc/opt/csw).     
> *                                                                  
> *         Migration will continue in 10 seconds.                   
> *          Press CTRL+C if you want to stop now.                   
> *******************************************************************
> 
> 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0.
> Copying '/opt/csw/etc/migration-archive/aliases' to '/etc/opt/csw/mail/aliases'
> Copying '/opt/csw/etc/migration-archive/local-host-names' to '/etc/opt/csw/mail/local-host-names'
> Copying '/opt/csw/etc/migration-archive/sendmail.cf' to '/etc/opt/csw/mail/sendmail.cf'
> Copying '/opt/csw/etc/migration-archive/submit.cf' to '/etc/opt/csw/mail/submit.cf'
> Copying '/opt/csw/etc/migration-archive/trusted-users' to '/etc/opt/csw/mail/trusted-users'
> /etc/opt/csw/mail/aliases already exists. Not overwriting
> Copying sample config to /etc/opt/csw/mail/helpfile
> /etc/opt/csw/mail/local-host-names already exists. Not overwriting
> /etc/opt/csw/mail/sendmail.cf already exists. Not overwriting
> /etc/opt/csw/mail/submit.cf already exists. Not overwriting
> /etc/opt/csw/mail/trusted-users already exists. Not overwriting
> 
> Installing class <cswinitsmf> ...
> /etc/opt/csw/init.d/cswsendmail
> /etc/init.d/cswsendmail
> Installing class <cswpostmsg> ...
> 
> Notes for users of previous versions of CSWsendmail
> ===================================================
> 
> Solaris built-in Sendmail
> -------------------------
> 
> The CSWsendmail package no longer tries to deactivate the built-in
> Sendmail in Solaris. Instead you get similar scripts that you can
> run yourself if you don't want to do the modifications manually.
> 
>   * /opt/csw/share/doc/sendmail/oracle-sendmail-deactivate.sh
>   * /opt/csw/share/doc/sendmail/oracle-sendmail-reactivate.sh
> 
> You should, as a minimum, disable the built-in Sendmail from starting
> at boot to avoid port 25 conflicts. Also, many utilities using mail
> expect Sendmail to be located in /usr/lib/sendmail e.g.
> 
> If you disable the rc-script in Solaris 9 and create links to
> CSWsendmail binaries manually or with the above mentioned script
> please be aware that Oracle patches may very well restore this.
> You have to be aware of this when patching as long as the built-in
> Sendmail packages are on your system.
> 
> Default paths
> -------------
> 
> The default paths are now:
> 
>   * /etc/opt/csw/mail
>   * /var/opt/csw/spool
> 
> Your configuration files in /opt/csw/etc/mail will be migrated to
> the new location automatically.
> 
> You can of course control almost everything by building a new
> sendmail.cf, take a look in /opt/csw/share/mail/cf. The init script
> (/etc/opt/csw/init.d/cswsendmail) may also need modification if you
> want to use other paths.
> 
> Alternatives
> ------------
> 
> A few files are provided by both the Sendmail and Postfix packages:
> 
>   * /opt/csw/bin/mailq
>   * /opt/csw/bin/newaliases
>   * /opt/csw/share/man/man1/aliases.1
>   * /opt/csw/share/man/man1/mailq.1
>   * /opt/csw/share/man/man1/newaliases.1
> 
> Normally you don't have both those packages on the same system but
> if you do you can easily select between the versions with the
> alternatives(8) system by executing e.g.:
> 
>   # /opt/csw/sbin/alternatives --config mailq
> 
> See http://www.opencsw.org/packages/alternatives for details.
> 
> Contrib
> -------
> 
> There's a new package, CSWsendmail-contrib, which contains the
> contents of the contrib dir in the Sendmail source. There's some
> useful scripts there.
> 
> -- 
> Peter Bonivart, OpenCSW, 2011-06-21
> 
> Installation of <CSWsendmail> partially failed.
> Exiting pkgutil due to pkgadd error: 2
> dublin9x# 
>