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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!ix.netcom.com!gerg From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews) Subject: Re: Weird sendmail behavior Message-ID: <gergEC2FMs.Hu1@netcom.com> Organization: Movie marquee: THE FLY GODS MUST BE CRAZY ALIENS References: <5o6me2$p0n@news.gvsu.edu> <5o76es$l0s@flatland.dimensional.com> <5o7b90$1kc@news.gvsu.edu> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 08:30:28 GMT Lines: 32 Sender: gerg@netcom23.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43231 behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes: >Michael Fuhr (mfuhr@dimensional.com) wrote: > >: Are you sure no person or program has mucked with /etc/sendmail.cf? >: There should be a line that starts "Mlocal", but from the error it >: looks like yours is "Mocal". Try "grep ocal /etc/sendmail.cf" and see >: what you get. > >Nope, Mlocal is in there: > >Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qrmn9, S=10/30, >R=20/40, > The error message wasn't complaining about the mailer definition, it was complaining about one of the other lines. Try: grep -n ocal /etc/sendmail.cf and carefully examine each line. You'll find one where the word "local" was truncated to "ocal". Note the line number supplied by grep, and when you edit the file to fix the line, you'll most likely find it's in the last half of ruleset S0. -Greg -- ::::::::::::::::::: Greg Andrews gerg@netcom.com ::::::::::::::::::: ObGuindon: Caution: This jacket has 37 Velcro(tm) closures. Do not hug a moose with the flaps open. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::