sendmail.cf problems under Ultrix 3.0

Andrew Poling ecf_hap at jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU
Fri Sep 29 02:17:20 AEST 1989


In article <1814 at eric.mpr.ca> parker at zaphod.Berkeley.EDU (Ross Parker) writes:
>
>I had the same problem with sendmail.cf. The file that I had working
>just fine under Ultrix 2.x broke miserably under Ultrix 3.0. I ended
>up calling DEC 'support' (if it can properly be called that...) and
>was told 'we don't support non-standard sendmail config files'.
>
>Well, come on, guys. I'm not asking you to debug my config files, all
>I ask is that you don't piss around with things that worked just fine,
>forcing me to put in hours of work reinventing the wheel. How many sites
>out there are actually running the DEC standard config file??? How many
>actually got broken by this change?

Why don't you just get the sources for sendmail5.61 and compile and use it?
Ultrix 3.0 is close enough to BSD4.2 with 4.3 networking that you can pretty
much type 'make' and be done.

That was my solution.  I did the same thing with BIND4.8 .


-Andy

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