telnet on local LAN question

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 05:52 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
>> Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>>> On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between
>>>> machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get
>>>> the results you indicated. Sure worth a try, let me give it a go.
>>>>
>>> Craig:
>>>
>>> I comment out the 127.0.0.1 line in sendmail.mc as suggested, did a
>>> service sendmail restart
>>
>> You do have the "sendmail-cf" package installed and are running
>> /etc/mail/make when you're done editing your configuration, as explained
>> at the top of sendmail.mc, correct?
>>
>> Always best to make sure the silly things are covered before looking at
>> the more complicated ones.  :-)
> ----
> I thought the command was 'make /etc/mail' and that it hasn't been
> necessary for about the last 10 years when restarting sendmail
> via /etc/init.d/sendmail restart (or service sendmail restart) would
> automatically execute 'make /etc/mail' for you.

It switched to using a shell script instead of Makefile at some point in 
the past several years.  There's still a stub Makefile that calls the 
script though, so both work.

Thanks for pointing out that the initscript calls make, though!  You 
learn something new every day.  :-)

> If as he said, 'netstat -an' shows 0.0.0.0:25 as a local address, it
> would seem that the changes were actually implemented.
>
> That said, sendmail is difficult enough to discourage many people from
> running their own mail server and postfix tends to be simpler to
> implement anything beyond the simplest configuration.
>
> Craig
>
>

-T.C.