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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!tetsuo.communique.net!usenet From: nectar@communique.net (Jacques Vidrine) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Problems building sendmail 8.6.9 on FreeBSD Date: 9 Jan 1995 13:17:25 GMT Organization: Communique, Inc. Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3erd15$fq1@tetsuo.communique.net> References: <3emmg9$i5j@tetsuo.communique.net> <FN.95Jan8185819@pain.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: kai.communique.net Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.93.11 In article <FN.95Jan8185819@pain.pain.csrv.uidaho.edu>, fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu says... >I don't know why you're getting these errors -- are you compiling >sendmail from freebsd's srcdist? i've recompiled it once, and i >didn't encounter this problem... Hmm, I got the distribution from Berkeley.Edu, and not from FreeBSD.Org. I'll try the distribution from FreeBSD.Org. [snip ... turning off ident] >/fn, dunno why anyone would wanna turn it off though.../ When an SMTP connection is made to my FreeBSD sendmail with ident on, there is a long (20 second?) wait while sendmail tries to talk ident. In most cases, the sending host is not using ident. -- Jacques Vidrine | "Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and Communique, Inc. | I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling nectar@communique.net | out a 27b/6 ... bloody paperwork." - Harry Tuttle