Thanks to responses from Sean O'Connell and Randall Winchester I was able
to put in place a new, sendmail-891 customized "mailstats" binary file.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
My question:--
On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Deen Ipaye wrote:
>
> Dear Sendmail gurus:
>
> After a previous/botched attempt to install sendmail.8.8.8,
> I finally went for sendmail.8.9.1 (with much thanks to Paul Youngblood
> who provided invaluable pointers).
>
> After the instal, I am getting the following error message when I
> issue the "mailstats" command--
>
> "mailstats: file size has changed"
>
> Looks like the format of the "sendmail.st" changed from the previous
> version under sendmail-5.65
>
> My question is-- how do I modify the format so "mailstats" would work?
>
> Thanks in anticipation; a summary will be posted
>
> -Deen
>
>
How it was resolved:
[A]
I went to the "mailstats" directory in my sendmail 8.9.1 install path.
It contains lots of "mailstats*" files plus a "Build" command.
I executed the "./Build" and it created an obj. sub-directory,
"obj.OSF1.V4.0.alpha."
I then "cd" to this new directory and voila, it contains a new "mailstats"
binary. I copied it to "/usr/sbin/mailstats" after renaming the old one
with a ".old" appendage (in case I want to go back to it).
Thanks Sean, for being the spark plug! (-;
[B]
As per Randall Winchester...
> Make sure you are running the new mailstats program that comes with
> sendmail-8.9.1, then "cp /dev/null sendmail.st" from what ever directory
> you keep the sendmail.st file in.
>
> There is new information being kept in the sendmail.st file now,
> including number of rejects and number of discards.
>
...Done & *THANKS* guys!
-Deen
Received on Tue Sep 08 1998 - 20:26:54 NZST