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Article #1661Sendmail/UUCP woes
From: Anthony Berno
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:12
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 01:12
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Some time ago, I set up UUCP on my system to get news and mail from a remote site which I poll regularly. This was not too difficult. Recently, I tried to do the same for a friend who was running 3.0, as I am now. Every time I attempted to send mail from his system, it was immediately returned with a "host unknown" message that hinted that sendmail was trying to send the message over the nonexistent ethernet network. At wits end, I finally replaced his newer version of sendmail with my older one, which was not overwritten by the 3.0 upgrade. Then, everything worked like a charm. Here are the relevant lines from my sendmail.cf file, which works correctly: (actually sendmail.subsidiary, but copied to sendmail.cf as per directions) ------------------- # local UUCP connections -- not forwarded to mailhost # The local UUCP connections are output by the uuname program. FV|/usr/bin/uuname # my official hostname Dj$?m$w$| $w $. #Dj$?m $w.$m $| $w $. #Dj$w.$D # major relay mailer DMuucp # major relay host DRquestor.wimsey.bc.ca CRquestor.wimsey.bc.ca --------------------- I have no idea of what these mean, I just copied them from some directions I had. Now, under the sendmail version in 3.0, setting up the (slightly different to begin with) sendmail.cf file to look the same way no longer works. I don't really like using an old sendmail with a new system; there must have been a good reason for changing it! However, I cannot get anything to work with the new sendmail and sendmail.cf files. My questions are: 1. What is the difference between the new and old sendmail? 2. Why doesn't the same alteration of the sendmail.cf file work with the new sendmail? I know that the files are a bit different to start with, but exactly what is the difference that prevents this setup from working under the 3.0 sendmail? Your help is appreciated. -Anthony
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!questor!godel!aberno From: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail/UUCP woes Message-ID: <1992Oct1.011252.9111@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 01:12:52 GMT Sender: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Reply-To: aberno@godel.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Lines: 57