Thomas Michalka wrote:
>
> Hi Cyril,
>
> There's no such file in my /etc directory.
> Is it a standard file that comes with sendmail normally?
It's optionnal. It tells sendmail in what order *and where* to look for
hostname resolutions.
> Do I only have to create it with your suggested contents and then sendmail
> after restart - reads the file?
AFAK it's the default for 8.8.5 but to be sure one can explicitly tell
sendmail to use it. Here are two ways for that:
- editing the /etc/sendmail.cf file and put the following
line:
O ServiceSwitchFile=/etc/service.switch3
- or by using the m4 technique with your .mc configuration file and
adding this line:
define(`confSERVICE_SWITCH_FILE', `/etc/service.switch')
> BTW: Is "file" in your suggestion a placeholder for /etc/hosts, e.g.?
No, it tells sendmail what order and which services to use for name
canonalisation. "file" tells it to look for hosts in /etc/hosts , it could
also be dns nis, etc...
HTH
Happy new year.
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