OT: create a sendmail.mc file from a sendmail.cf file?

[Scott Lambert]

cobalt.mc would be the Google search word I was looking for.  Did I
mention that I suck at picking search words?

Sorry to have bothered everyone.

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 04:11:15PM -0400, Scott Lambert wrote:
> I would like to know if anyone has seen a sendmail.mc generator that
> takes a sendmail.cf file as input.  Google hasn't come up with anything
> yet, but I'm famous for not using the right search words.
> 
> Why do I need to do this, you ask?
> 
> I've been trying to move one of my customers off a Cobalt RaQ4 onto a
> FreeBSD box.  (They were hacked twice in one week with all the patches
> installed.  Those two times made 4 root compromises of the box in the
> past year and a half and they saw the light.)  I currently have them up
> on a RedHat box using a couple of the Cobalt binaries.  
> 
> Getting them up on the Linux box was about 24 man-hours of config
> massaging and directory correlation once I gave up and used two binaries
> from the compromised Cobalt.  That is in addition to the time spent in
> RPM hunting hell.  All of the Cobalt packages were really old versions
> of opensource packages.  Most of that config massaging is paying off in
> the move from Linux to FreeBSD.
> 
> The biggest problems in bringing this system over to the FreeBSD box are
> the Cobalt specific cgiwrap and majordomo wrapper binaries.
> 
> I think I've massaged the majordomo configs around to where they will
> work without the Cobalt wrapper program and it's virtual hosting
> additions.  We'll find out when we go live. :-(
> 
> I haven't gotten to the cgiwrap binary yet.  So far I plan to replace it
> with suexec or the non-Cobalt cgiwrap.  But I am not far enough into it
> to know if that will work without a lot of other changes.  They tell me 
> they don't have a lot of CGI so I'm leaving that for last.
> 
> Right now, I am working on trying to upgrade the sendmail.cf file from
> 8.9 to 8.12 to make newaliases work and to ease future maintainability.
> I never learned to read the sendmail.cf language beyond the basics, and
> don't know the one to one mapping of mc rule to cf rule blocks.
> 
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