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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:45:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mgrommet@insolwwb.net
Subject:   Re: LONG: trying to upgrade sendmail to 8.9.1
Message-ID:  <199809151945.MAA06426@pau-amma.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <00a901bde0d7$1d1d6ca0$0cf896d0@work2.insolwwb.net>

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>From: "Mike Grommet" <mgrommet@insolwwb.net>
>Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 13:31:54 -0500

>Ok, so I make my .cf file by m4 ../m4/cf.m4 testfile.mc > testfile.cf
>I copy the testfile.cf to /etc/sendmail.cf
>then I fire up the new binary of sendmail with

>/usr/local/sendmail-8.9.1/src/obj.BSD-OS.2.1.i386/sendmail

>which comes off without a hitch... EXCEPT  when I try to send email... then
>I get

Seems to me that you might want to fire off the new sendmail via:

/usr/local/sendmail-8.9.1/src/obj.BSD-OS.2.1.i386/sendmail -C testfile.cf

so it will use your newly-generated .cf file, and (with any luck) avoid:

>/etc/sendmail.cf: line 846: Inappropriate use of $# on LHS
>/etc/sendmail.cf: line 871: Inappropriate use of $# on LHS
>/etc/sendmail.cf: line 937: Inappropriate use of $# on LHS
>Warning: .cf version level (8) exceeds sendmail version 8.8.8 functionality
>(7): Socket operation on non-socket

>I looked through my sendmail.cf file and the code seems ok compared to my
>working 8.9.1 machine... not quite sure where to look here...

>and this is also probably relative too, I get in my log files:
>Sep 15 11:27:21 ns sendmail[11342]: /etc/spwd.db: Inappropriate file type or
>format
>Sep 15 11:27:21 ns sendmail[11341]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(UID0): Cannot open hash
>database /etc/aliases.db: Inappropriate file type or format

Hmmm....  Sounds as if the DBMDEF might not have been consistent
between the two sendmail builds.

>Ok. so what format is 8.9.1 expecting the db files to be?

Depends on what DBMDEF is.

david
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