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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!tbird.cc.iastate.edu!explorer From: explorer@iastate.edu (Michael Graff) Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <explorer.732208878@tbird.cc.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA References: <1o073nINNrhu@uwm.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 15:21:18 GMT Lines: 28 In <1o073nINNrhu@uwm.edu> knier@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Robert Knier ) writes: > After playing around with mail for a bit, I can't seem > to send mail locally. I set up subdirectories in /var/mail > for the users after sendmail complained about not finding > them. Now it seems that sendmail is looking for a file called > sendmail.fc - I cann't find this file on agate. What is the > format of the file? also should the subdirectories in /var/mail > contain certain permisssions? Remove the directories you made. Those will be FILES made by sendmail eventually. You might also wish to edit the /etc/sendmail.cf file to reflect your hostname. Then, as root, type: sendmail -bz This will create /etc/sendmail.fc (frozen config file) --Michael -- Michael Graff <explorer@iastate.edu> Speaking for myself, not Project Vincent Voice: (515)294-4994 for ISU or the ISUCC Iowa State Univ Comp Center Fax: (515)294-1717 Ames, IA 50010 PGP key on pgp-public-keys@junkbox.cc.iastate.edu