Hello again, First, thanks to all who responded with suggestions. I'm still working on Sendmail. I have it working half way following Oliver's suggestions ...I can send, but I am not receiving anything, either locally or over the Internet. I figure it can be the settings at my DNS server, the router's firewall (don't think so), a sendmail configuration I'm missing...(?, I have SMTP and local, so it must be one of the exotic ones set up by Debian), or I just don't have my Kmail mail client set up right (ashamed to say it, I can configure Windows Outlook accounts, but I have no idea what I should be telling the Linux machine about loading mail to local/remote users).
Best Wishes! Mike Olds www.buddhadust.org -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 10:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Setting up Sendmail On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Michael Olds wrote: > Hello, > > Woody. > > I am having some difficulty getting Sendmail up and running. > I installed the program apparently with no problems. I ran: sendmailconfig > after the install, also apparently no problems, no errors reported. But > nothing works either. So I looked in /etc/mail/ and there is no sendmail.cf > so I tried running sendmailconfig again and it asked if it should configure > using the existing sendmail .conf and I said yes. And it reported there was > no /usr/sbin/update_conf which there isn't as it's in /usr/share/sendmail/ It is a bug ... you first have to cd in the directory /usr/share/sendmail and then run sendmailconfig. > > (Question one: could I just move it to where it wants?) > > There is no existing sendmail.conf in /etc/mail/ either. > > When I tried to create a sendmail.cf using: > > cd /etc/mail > m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 I first got a permission denied and saw > that the files in /m4/ were all marked non executable. I marked them > executable but I am not sure if that was the right thing to do. You can copy the example sendmail.mc and submit.mc from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/debian/ to your /etc/mail directory (and of course edit them) and then run m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (the same for the submit file). Then cd to the /usr/share/sendmail directory and run sendmailconfig (I think it has to be run as root). Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang-bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
