freebsd stable - Jan 2004 - SYSERR(root) Can not exec /bin/mail: No such file or directory

hi sirs,

i hvae just noticed that if  /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer/local.m4 has
a line that says

ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',
/bin/mail)')

will result in error at boot time.  i simply change that line to

ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',
/usr/bin/mail)')

and error disappears after doing make install at /etc/mail.  but i do not
know of any side effects will happen.  my system is

[firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer # uname -a
FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #3: Fri Jan 23 10:25:43
 ICT 2004     root@firak.thai-aec.org:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/Firak  i386
[firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer #


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On 23 Jan, pirat wrote:
> hi sirs,
> 
> i hvae just noticed that if  /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer/local.m4
has
> a line that says
> 
> ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',
/bin/mail)')
> 
> will result in error at boot time.  i simply change that line to
> 
> ifdef(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',, `define(`LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',
/usr/bin/mail)')
> 
> and error disappears after doing make install at /etc/mail.  but i do not
> know of any side effects will happen.  my system is
> 
> [firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer # uname -a
> FreeBSD firak.thai-aec.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #3: Fri Jan 23
10:25:43
>  ICT 2004     root@firak.thai-aec.org:/var/obj/usr/src/sys/Firak  i386
> [firak] /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/mailer #
It looks like your sendmail .mc file (which is used to build your
sendmail.cf) is missing the
	OSTYPE(freebsd4)
statement which pulls in
/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/ostype/freebsd4.m4,
which defines LOCAL_MAILER_PATH as /usr/libexec/mail.local.  You'll
probably want to use /etc/mail/freebsd.mc as the starting point for your
sendmail configuration.