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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Am Di, den 14.02.2006 schrieb Lovell Mcilwain um 4:50:
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<pre wrap="">How do you try to generate the .cf files? Simply run
make -C /etc/mail
(just to see if there are any errors/complaints)
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<pre wrap="">Output:
make: Entering directory `/etc/mail'
make: Leaving directory `/etc/mail'
sendmail.cf did have content in it this time.
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<pre wrap="">then
service sendmail restart
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<pre wrap="">I restarted the service:
Shutting down sendmail: [ OK ]
Shutting down sm-client: [FAILED]
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The submission agent wasn't running.
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<pre wrap="">Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
I didn't get any complaints.
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<pre wrap="">[user@FC4FW share]$ m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
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<pre wrap="">Not the correct command syntax.
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You omitted the ">".
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<pre wrap="">This was the syntax I was told to use to append changes to my .cf file.
If this isn't right what do I use? I had no clue about the previous
command you gave me to generate the sendmail.cf file correctly.
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m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Better use the make command (which makes use of the Makefile inside
/etc/mail) and catches more than just the .mc file changes, too the
hashed map files.
Alexander
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I will see how I can use the make command. I don't know how the syntax
changes from using that vs the m4 command. I will see what I can find
on it. Thanks for all the help
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