strange sendmail behavior (was: Re: Please test /etc/rc.d/sendmail patch)

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:58:48 +0200
"Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw at withagen.nl> wrote:

> From: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander at Leidinger.net>
> > > Perhaps your sendmail running with periodic uses a different .cf???
> >
> > I don't think so. Regenerating the sendmail.cf was one of the first
> > things I did, so it isn't outdated. The submit.cf is also regenerated.
> > The only other .cf files are the freebsd ones, and those are also
> > up-to-date.
> 
> This is almost at the top of my *.cf
> 
> # level 10 config file format
> V10/Berkeley
> 
> This is a little further down the road:
> 
> # Configuration version number
> DZ8.12.10

As I already told here: the config is up-to-date.

> And this is at the end of:
> 
> strings /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
> @(#) Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Sendmail, Inc. and its suppliers.
>         All rights reserved.
>      Copyright (c) 1983, 1995-1997 Eric P. Allman.  All rights reserved.
>      Copyright (c) 1988, 1993
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> 0123456789ABCDEF
> ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/
> ?456789:;<=
>  !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123
> >|Gt
> 8.12.10
> 
> My guess is that if in this last case has 8.9.3 in it, your running old
> binaries.

% strings /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail |grep 8.9.3

%strings /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail | grep 8.12.11
8.12.11

Bye,
Alexander.

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