Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 16:27:01 -0400 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: create a sendmail.mc file from a sendmail.cf file? Message-ID: <20030529202701.GB28104@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <20030529201115.GA28104@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <20030529201115.GA28104@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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cobalt.mc would be the Google search word I was looking for. Did I mention that I suck at picking search words? Sorry to have bothered everyone. On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:11:15PM -0400, Scott Lambert wrote: > I would like to know if anyone has seen a sendmail.mc generator that > takes a sendmail.cf file as input. Google hasn't come up with anything > yet, but I'm famous for not using the right search words. > > Why do I need to do this, you ask? > > I've been trying to move one of my customers off a Cobalt RaQ4 onto a > FreeBSD box. (They were hacked twice in one week with all the patches > installed. Those two times made 4 root compromises of the box in the > past year and a half and they saw the light.) I currently have them up > on a RedHat box using a couple of the Cobalt binaries. > > Getting them up on the Linux box was about 24 man-hours of config > massaging and directory correlation once I gave up and used two binaries > from the compromised Cobalt. That is in addition to the time spent in > RPM hunting hell. All of the Cobalt packages were really old versions > of opensource packages. Most of that config massaging is paying off in > the move from Linux to FreeBSD. > > The biggest problems in bringing this system over to the FreeBSD box are > the Cobalt specific cgiwrap and majordomo wrapper binaries. > > I think I've massaged the majordomo configs around to where they will > work without the Cobalt wrapper program and it's virtual hosting > additions. We'll find out when we go live. :-( > > I haven't gotten to the cgiwrap binary yet. So far I plan to replace it > with suexec or the non-Cobalt cgiwrap. But I am not far enough into it > to know if that will work without a lot of other changes. They tell me > they don't have a lot of CGI so I'm leaving that for last. > > Right now, I am working on trying to upgrade the sendmail.cf file from > 8.9 to 8.12 to make newaliases work and to ease future maintainability. > I never learned to read the sendmail.cf language beyond the basics, and > don't know the one to one mapping of mc rule to cf rule blocks. > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin > lambert@lambertfam.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org
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