Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:14 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Missing sendmail.cf... Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.981024121048.16863A-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810242222120.12675-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au>
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On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, Dean Hollister wrote: > On Sat, 24 Oct 1998, BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > > > I recently crashed my root partition, and with it alll of my configuration > > files... I achieve a almost complete recovery, doing a "make world" and > > still having the /usr/src partition helping a lot. > > That's for sure. But you should keep an off-site backup of your /etc > directory and maybe also /usr/local. /etc is ok, but /usr/local is out of the question... I have much too much stuff on this, and no backup space... > > But then I saw that I had no /etc/sendmail.cf file! How come? Isn't 'make > > world' supposed to recreate the /etc files? > > No. Do the following: > > bash# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/cf > bash# make freebsd.cf gives me: make freebsd.cf `freebsd.cf' is up to date. > bash# cp freebsd.cf /etc/sendmail.cf there's no freebsd.cf file created... Where is it supposed to land? thanks... > Edit your new sendmail.cf to match your local requirements. > > Restart sendmail with: > > bash# /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q30m > > Then: > > bash# ps -ax | grep sendmail > > Should show sendmail running on port 25, if all has gone well with your > replaced sendmail.cf file. > > Regards, > > d. > > +-----------------------------------+ | Free the world from businessmen | | Free yourself from your money | +-----------------------------------+ Free the web. Spidey visit: http://www.JSP.UMontreal.CA/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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