Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sunybcs!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!msir From: msir@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: from daemon messages?? Message-ID: <8419@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 90 19:34:54 GMT References: <1990Jul13.145436.16122@dmntor.on.ca> Sender: news@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Reply-To: Mark Sirota Lines: 18 In article <1990Jul13.145436.16122@dmntor.on.ca> rasmus@dmntor.on.ca (Rasmus Lerdorf) writes: > I am running SunOS 4.1. I have a main mail server and a couple of > subsidiary machines also running 4.1. I recently ... had to change > the sendmail.cf on my main machine to accomodate smail. ... Local > messages sent from my main machine are fine. However if they are sent from > one of the subsidiary machines they get to their destination but the top > line of the message always says, "From daemon " The From: line > further down in the header is fine but it is rather annoying to have the > From daemon in my headers. The problem is that you need to freeze the configuration and restart the daemon as root, not as the user daemon. Just kill the daemon, and refreeze and restart as root. -- Mark Sirota - University of Rochester Computing Center, Rochester NY Internet: msir@cc.rochester.edu Bitnet: msir@uordbv.bitnet UUCP: {decvax,harvard,ames,rutgers}!rochester!ur-cc!msir