getting sendmail's syslog to work (4.2bsd)

[Mark Plotnick]

We've been unable to get sendmail to log anything in
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog.  Sendmail gave the spurious "Can't open
/dev/console" message, but that went away when I installed some fixes
to syslog.c routine that eric at berkeley and a few other people sent
awhile ago.  But syslog still didn't log anything, and /etc/syslog
would occasionally go into infinite loops.  I tried all combinations of
{fixed,nonfixed} versions residing in
{/lib/libc.a,/usr/src/usr.bin/sendmail/lib/libsys.a}, but nothing
worked.

I just looked at another machine here that was genned from the same
tape ours was.  It apparently has the vanilla sendmail distribution and
vanilla libc.a, but its syslog WORKS.  The only difference between their
machine and our machine, actually, is that they have internet support
and we don't.  We have INET and the inet and loop pseudo-devices in our
config file, but we really aren't on the internet, so we don't have a
/dev/il0 and don't run /etc/ifconfig in the rc file like the other
machine does.  Could this have something to do with the problem?  How
much does sendmail's syslog depend on the internet stuff?
	Mark