Date: 17 Sep 2002 23:11:30 +0100 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net> Cc: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, sendmail-questions@sendmail.org Subject: RE: After editing freebsd.mc, how do I use this m4 processor? Message-ID: <1032300693.376.75.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPOECHGKAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net> References: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPOECHGKAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Thank you all for the overwhelming response to my post :-) As I mentioned to an earlier replier, These last few minutes has opened up a new, refreshing appreciation of FreeBSD to me. The simplicity of this concept that escaped me is almost embarrassing, but worth it in the end. Thank you all once again! Stacey On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 22:42, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > These would have been installed at the last time I recompiled the > > kernel. I'm fairly comfortable in editing these files as required, but I > > am pretty certain that after editing freebsd.mc (so as to define > > masquerading, default gateway, etc), I am supposed to use m4 to generate > > a new freebsd.cf, which in turn is copied to sendmail.cf, thus producing > > a new configuration file for sendmail to read upon restart. > > > > This is what I know of sendmail (back in v8.8x & 8.9x) under AIX and > > Sequent Dynix/ptx. Has this procedure since been deprecated for FreeBSD, > > that I am now aware of? > > > > Thanks again for the reply. > > > > Stacey > > Not deprecated, but streamlined. If I understand you correctly, in > /etc/mail, copy freebsd.mc to your.machine.name.mc, then do your editing on > it. > > make will run your.machine.name.mc through m4 to produce > your.machine.name.cf. > > make install will cp the above to sendmail.cf. make restart will read the > new .cf files. > > Much easier than the old method. > > hth, > > Riley > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQEVAwUAPYeoj5vQeubckvvXAQHJtgf+JAm8kJoD7iOaayKDJQ93/37laZJoWN1F NCLPiAaMjpLLidyp5hsKOCIEdZxo6UAXxLNYTti3Extdxmw6PDJ5d+haziyx8kEe TavsNZGj/m+LOkd5VArKdQL665tBMk68JS7TypDtQLT6OVb609euL0SzOf/T+pNn yvZr4orA5f07s+LhDZp1sP3sv/2+epsaRxo2AZU4B20gQZYF0vlM5145bMHp9SUe Arryi9Nzcd34TE4jD6AxfINGLoaQxJ3KCbiT64zZCGOzj8NvnwWHEBA0CxO+iqgi gopO/ccnB3MqyohnPfLIc48oTKXywsUKzyTRFjagjkJ/rfwIahyARw== =iGmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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