Re: [Nolug] running a mail server with a Cox account

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Brad N Bendily wrote:

> so I was wrong the mail command does use sendmail.mc by default
> but on redhat 7.2 it uses the .mc file from /etc/sendmail.mc
>
> not the one in /etc/mail that i was changing and modifying.
>
> i moved the sendmail.mc file i was generating to /etc/sendmail.mc
> and everything is all good now.
>
> Now I can get my firewall scripts and I get notices when my IP
> address changes with cox. Which It hasn't changed in the past 6 months
> any way, but oh well. I'm happy!
>
> thanks!
> Brad B

Well i already talked to brad but to finish the thread.... sendmail never
looks at your sendmail.mc, it only cares about sendmail.cf. so it doesn't
matter where sendmail.mc is, or if you even had one at all... Not so long
ago vendors didn't ship the mc file with sendmail, and it was quite a feat
to turn your cf file back into a mc file, haha.

The newer sendmail convention is to keep all sendmail config in /etc/mail.
But sendmail.cf was traditionally in /etc. Some versions of redhat
symlink /etc/sendmail.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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