Yarrow Release Notes - sendmail mc->cf

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Nov 5 23:12:52 UTC 2003


bishop said:
> <http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/>
>
> Folks,
>
> In the release notes, we read:
>
>> #
>>
>> By default, the Sendmail mail transport agent (MTA) does not accept
>> network connections from any host other than the local computer. If you
>> want to configure Sendmail as a server for other clients, you must edit
>> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and change the DAEMON_OPTIONS line to also listen
>> on network devices (or comment out this option entirely using the dnl
>> comment delimiter). You must then regenerate /etc/mail/sendmail.cf by
>> running the following command (as root):
>>
>> make -C /etc/mail
>>
>> Note that you must have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to
>> work.
>
> I'm used to sendmail doing it for me on a 'service sendmail reload', and
> I liked that it did the 'make' as required.  Is this no longer expected
> to work as it did for RHL9 (and possibly others)?
>
> It's a small question, yes, but it matters to the same kind of people
> who actually /read/ the release notes 8-)

The same paragraph is in the RHL 9 release notes, and in the RH 8 release
notes (using m4 instead of make).

-- 
William Hooper





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