I sent this yesterday to debian-devel, but probably that wasn't the most
appropriate list. Perhaps I'll be luckier here... :)
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This is sendmail version 8.12.3-4, gotten in last night's dist-upgrade
(testing), which ran without any errors.
1st issue:
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Sendmail seems to have broken with the last upgrade. I get errors like:
Cannot open hash database /etc/aliases.db: Invalid argument
Warning: cannot open alias database /etc/aliases
Cannot create database for aliase file /etc/aliases
whenever I run newaliases.
Attempting to send mail results in
On Sun, 27 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
Good suggestion. I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good
lookup. Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help. Now howto
hack sendmail into submission! Does anybody know the simple fix to the
.cf file to make it run? Thanks
On Sat, 26 Jul 1997, D. W. Wieboldt wrote:
WARNING: local host name (shiloh_a) is not qualified; fix $j in config file
It is illegal to use '_' in hostnames, and newest dns servers are enforce
this limitation AFAIK. Use '-' instead.
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Good suggestion. I think it is indeed timing out for want of a good
lookup. Have host name in /etc/hosts but that doesn't help. Now howto
hack sendmail into submission! Does anybody know the simple fix to the
.cf file to make it run? Thanks all!
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This happens to me a lot. You have two options: put your hostname and
IP address in /etc/hosts, or convince sendmail that it really doesn't
need to do a DNS lookup. The second I don't remember how to do, but I
think you can manage it from the M4 stuff (which is good; .cf files
are
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D. W. Wieboldt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running
just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one
so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues
I just built a new Debian 1.3 system from cdrom. Lots of things are running
just fine, but somehow sendmail doesn't work. I want sendmail on this one
so I can build a beeper gateway :-) Does anybody have any clues about what
I should be looking for?
Upon startup, sendmail hangs for a couple
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