[csw-users] Self-inflicted sendmail problem?

Peter Bonivart bonivart at blastwave.org
Thu Jan 3 18:52:07 CET 2008


On Jan 3, 2008 6:24 PM, David Mackintosh <David.Mackintosh at xdroop.com> wrote:
> I think where I messed up was that I did not uninstall the Sun
> packages before I attempted to install the blastwave one.  I have
> since uninstalled the Sun sendmail packages, and now I'm in this
> state.

I've never had to remove Sun's sendmail.

> ## Executing preinstall script.
> adding smmsp group
> adding smmsp user
> chroot: No such file or directory
> pkgadd: ERROR: preinstall script did not complete successfully

Seems like one of these two lines have failed:

chroot $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT /usr/sbin/useradd -g smmsp smmsp
chroot $PKG_INSTALL_ROOT /usr/sbin/usermod -c "SendMail Message
Submission Program" -d $MYHOME smmsp

-- 
/peter



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