From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 09:14:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA21474 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:14:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21469 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA13804; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from derby.jsp.umontreal.ca (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via ESMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id MAA09519; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (beaupran@localhost) by derby.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id MAA17116; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:14 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: derby.jsp.umontreal.ca: beaupran owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 12:13:14 -0400 (EDT) From: BEAUPRE Antoine To: Dean Hollister cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Missing sendmail.cf... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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