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[Edward]

Muhammad Rizwan Khan wrote:
> I wana to know somethings about sendmail, plz. tell me, if you know.
> first is,, how i can check the version of sendmail running on my system.
> Secondly,,, i got a sendmail.cf file, and pasted it on /etc/ directory. When
>  i try to start sendmail it give me the following error, i guess its
>  versioning problem. Can you plz. tell me what i need to change in
>  sendmail.cf file (file is attached with the email) to make it functional on
>  my system.
> [root at Rizwan etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
> Starting sendmail: 554 5.0.0 Warning: .cf version level (10) exceeds sendmail
> version 8.11.6 functionality (9)
> /etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Muhammad Rizwan Khan
>

Muhammed, please scroll a little further down.


> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> #
> # Copyright (c) 1998-2002 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
> #	All rights reserved.
> # Copyright (c) 1983, 1995 Eric P. Allman.  All rights reserved.
> # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
> #	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> #
> # By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
> # forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
> # the sendmail distribution.
> #
> #
> 
> ######################################################################
> ######################################################################
> #####
> #####		SENDMAIL CONFIGURATION FILE
> #####
> ##### built by root at Linuxtest on Fri Sep 26 11:26:17 PKST 2003
> ##### in /etc/mail
> ##### using /usr/share/sendmail-cf/ as configuration include directory
> #####
> ######################################################################
> #####
> #####	DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!  Only edit the source .mc file.
> #####
> ######################################################################

Specifically read the comment in the file above. The .cf file is not 
meant to be edited. You are not going to get a lot of help telling you 
how to do this, because it's not really the way to do it. You might want 
to hop over to www.sendmail.org, it's not a bad place to start.

Regards,
Ed.