sendmail configuration

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:32:27AM -0500, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 15:40, Jonathan Chen wrote:
[...]
> > 
> >     # cd /etc/mail
> >     # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
> >     # vi `hostname`.mc
> >     # make
> >     # make install
> >     # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart
> 
> I did all that, but sendmail does not seem to be sending out mail. Is
> there anything that needs to be done to make sure that 'hostname.mc'
> gets activated? Should the 'make' and 'make install' commands take
> 'hostname.mc' as an agrument?

It is *NOT* 'hostname.mc'. It is `hostname`.mc (note the back-tick).
`hostname`.mc should expand to host.name.of.machine.mc.
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