Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 07:02, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ all: access.db mailertable.db

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sunday 11 April 2004 10:40, Rob wrote: It does nothing at all, just right back to the prompt. I think Warren has found the answer to the problem. I think it probably has done something. But traditional BSD utilities don't flash lights or make a song and dance unless something is wrong. See

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:10:11PM -0400, Rob wrote: Yeah, I believe it's 4.4 and I've been on this server for years. They are supposed to take care of the upgrades but they never do. I would do it myself but if anything goes wrong they charge to fix it and so I've pretty much left it alone up

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Actually, when I do a make or make all, it appears as if nothing was done and when I check in the /etc/mail dir, none of the dates or times have changed. It may have done something but I can't see what it is. Rob. See what files in the directory now have a recent time and date. Malcolm

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
is not there or cfhead.m4 is missing. cfhead is located here: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cfhead.m4 -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 4:09 AM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed In order

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 11:01:51AM -0400, Rob wrote: When I try this, I get the error: m4: ../m4/cfhead.m4: No such file or directory So I looked for m4 and it appears to be in /usr/bin/ so I run: %/usr/bin/m4 -D_CF_DIR=/usr/share/sendmail/cf/ /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-11 Thread Rob
Ahhh... brilliant.. worked like a charm. Thanks Matthew and everyone else who helped. Much appreciated. I will also get sendmail upgraded as soon as I can. Thanks again. Rob. It appears that the sendmail version you're trying to use is too old for the required functionality using _CF_DIR to

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread jan . muenther
Can someone point me in the right direction so I can get this working. Just use the Makefile in /etc/mail (or switch to postfix, cough). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 4:42 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 04:07 PM 4/10/2004, you wrote: Yeah, I tried that... I just got an 'unable to make error. At this point, postfix is looking very attractive. Postfix is very easy to install and configure. Sendmail is not for the faint of heart. However, once you learn how to use m4 to make sendmail.cf it

Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would like to add some of the dnsbl lists to stop some of the spam received by the server. The FreeBSD /etc/mail/Makefile makes this pretty easy. Edit

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:17 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: I have a freebsd box that was configured by Interland. They offer no support on sendmail configuration and I would

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. :-)

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:28 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help, I have got my mc file all ready to go with the dnsbl lines I need, but when I try to make I get this error: make: don't know how to make install. Stop I've been going around in circles with this all day and it's making me nuts. Are you

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Thanks for the help

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's really strange then. The Makefile is right there in the /etc/mail directory and this is what it looks like: # $FreeBSD: src/contrib/sendmail/etc.mail/Makefile,v 1.1 2000/07/07 21:06:52 qzhou Exp $ That's really old. And it's telling you the truth--it

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: Yes. Is this correct? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Viktor Lazlo Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 5:40 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
topic but sendmail help needed Yes, I just have never seen that error message before unless I was attempting to run make outside of /etc/mail. What does it tell you when you just do make? Cheers, Viktor ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed

2004-04-10 Thread Rob
in a few weeks so I may have a shot at the upgrades next weekend. -Original Message- From: Warren Block [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:23 PM To: Rob Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Off topic but sendmail help needed On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Rob wrote: That's