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From: hwr@pilhuhn.sub.org (Heiko W.Rupp)
Subject: Re: sendmail problems....
References: <21n166$i2m@Tut.MsState.Edu>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 22:52:04 GMT
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kangaroo@cy.cs.olemiss.edu (Lester Work Group) writes:

>sendmail[17172] : Cannot open frozen config file /etc/sendmail.fc : no
>such file or directory

>I thought the config file for sendmail was /etc/sendmail.cf not

This is right.

>/etc/sendmail.fc. Where do i change the config file name so that it
>accesses the right file??

sendmail wants a frozen file which it can load faster, as it does not
need parsing every time. To get this simply execute /usr/sbin/sendmail -bz
Try looking in the sendmail man page next time.

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