Well gee, this was simple, I was using a mailstats program from older
version of sendmail. Recompiled mailstats, viola, it works.
Thanks to Sergey Mokryshev for pointing that out. :)
Bill
Original problem:
> I am having a problem with the command mailstats, system is running
> Solaris 2.6, sendmail 8.9.1.
>
> As root:
>
> pity:~ >mailstats
> mailstats: file size changed.
>
> pity:~ >ls -l /etc/mail/sendmail.st
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 616 Nov 12 11:43
> /etc/mail/sendmail.st
>
> Ok, so then I send a few mails in and out.
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 616 Nov 12 11:44
> /etc/mail/sendmail.st
>
> the date changes, but upon using mailstats again:
>
> mailstats: file size changed.
>
> I also tried to specify directly the cf and st files:
>
> mailstats -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf -f /etc/mail/sendmail.st
>
> mailstats: file size changed.
>
> I know the file size hasn't changed, but the date has so I know it is
> being written to, I can send 10 emails and the file size doesn't change.
> I would think, as I have seen it in other boxes, it would show the mail
> stats regardless.
>
> Sendmail.cf has the Status file line:
> O StatusFile=/etc/mail/sendmail.st
>
> Any suggestions as to why this may not be working? I will summarize.
>
> Bill
>
>
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