From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 18:23:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0B637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:23:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from thalia.otenet.gr (thalia.otenet.gr [195.170.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B4543F85 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 18:23:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a158.otenet.gr [212.205.215.158]) by thalia.otenet.gr (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h332NVFh001338; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:23:32 +0300 (EEST) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h332NUx7056711; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:23:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h332NUBA056710; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:23:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 05:23:30 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: bastill@adam.com.au Message-ID: <20030403022330.GB56557@gothmog.gr> References: <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1049333119.3e8b8d7f0c73b@webmail.adam.com.au> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 02:23:47 -0000 On 2003-04-03 10:55, bastill@adam.com.au wrote: > > In discussion on -stable, people have been trying to help me with a > sendmail issue. The effect is for sendmail to refuse to start, no > matter what, and I cannot use the Internet from that box. (I am using > webmail and Windoze - - to send this message) > > One problem is that the version of sendmail and its .cf file are out > of sync and I don't know how to correct this. There might be other > problems I need to address. Start by reading /etc/mail/README and then by regenerating your sendmail.cf file. Running the following as root should be fine, but you should really read the README file for hints and pointers to more detailed documentation. # cd /etc/mail # test -f `hostname`.mc && cp `hostname`.mc `hostname`.mc.BAK # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc # make && make install # make stop ; make restart Then, if the file `hostname`.mc.BAK exists, you should check the differences of that file and `hostname`.mc and merge local changes back into `hostname`.mc that were lost in the process. - Giorgos