Hi
I have removed sendmail and exim4 from my Slug, and am trying to use
Nail as I also have that working OK on my Unslung V5.5 slug. I also have
Nail working OK on my Sarge based VDR.
It does actually work, once the boot sequence is over. I can run the
upmail and downmail scripts in /etc/init.d/ Ok and they work. But during
runlevel 6 and runlevel 2 processing the scripts are called but nail
fails.
So this shows the script working OK:

Oct 3 17:17:15 Slug2 logger: ./upmail Starting
Oct 3 17:17:15 Slug2 logger: /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh Sending Up
/etc/init.d/upmail to Brian
warning: incomplete line - newline appended
Resolving host mailto.btx.dtag.de . . . done.
Connecting to 194.25.134.90 . . . connected.
220 fwd27.aul.t-online.de T-Online ESMTP receiver fmsad1025 ready. / .....
>>> .^
250 2.0.0 Message accepted. / Nachricht akzeptiert.^
>>> QUIT^
221 2.0.0 fwd27.aul.t-online.de closing. / Verbindung wird getrennt.^
Oct 3 17:17:17 Slug2 logger: /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh Done
Oct 3 17:17:17 Slug2 logger: ./upmail Done

And here shows it failing:
Oct 3 17:10:32 Slug2 logger: /etc/rc2.d/S99upmail Starting
Oct 3 17:10:32 Slug2 logger: /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh Sending Up
/etc/init.d/upmail to Brian
/usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
.. . . message not sent.
Oct 3 17:10:32 Slug2 logger: /usr/sbin/mailtext.sh Done
Oct 3 17:10:32 Slug2 logger: /etc/rc2.d/S99upmail Done

Looked and /usr/lib/sendmail does not exist. But, then why does the
command work once the boot sequence is over. Apparently nail does not
need an MTA for what I am doing, just sending to an SMTP server:

man nail

smtp Normally, nail invokes sendmail(8) directly to transfer messages.
If the smtp variable is set, a SMTP connection to the server specified
by the value of this variable is used instead. If the SMTP server does
not use the stan-dard port, a value of serverort can be given, with
port as a name or as a number.

cat ~/.mailrc
set smtp=mail.example.com

And mine is set smtp=mailto.btx.dtag.de

I guess this some kind of environment or path problem. When I enter
the command as root from the console it is OK, under what user is it
run during the runlevel processing.
It also doesn't make a difference whether I run the script from
/etc/init.d or /etc/rc2.d.

Anyone any ideas how to debug this?

Another question. Nail does far more than I need, all I need is a small
mailer that can send text messages and attachments via smtp from Linux.
Any recommendations from something smaller than nail?




Cheers Brian