/etc/resolv.conf and sendmail

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 13.07.2004 schrieb |TF20|Shockwave um 15:59:

> >To check what's going on the first look has to go into the
> >/var/log/maillog. It may be helpful to increase the log level to a
> >higher level by putting
> >
> >define(`confLOG_LEVEL', `15')dnl
> >
> >into the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. You will need to restart
Sendmail
> >to activate that setting.
> 
> Actually, I believe you need to run the sendmail.mc file through the
m4
> macro to make any changes to the sendmail.cf file:
> 
> m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> 
> Then you can restart the sendmail service to make the changes take
effect.
> Of course, I would back-up the existing sendmail.cf file before doing
> anything.  ;)
> 
> 
> Shockwave

No, running m4 manually is not necessary - it was on former Redhat Linux
releases. It would even be simpler by just running "make -C /etc/mail".
But not necessary. If you look into the Sendmail init script you will
find there in the start() function definition following content:

        echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
        if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then
          make all -C /etc/mail -s

Alexander


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