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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: temporarily broken nameserver breaks sendmail daemon
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.021602.19483@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 02:16:02 GMT
References: <9455@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <9455@milton.u.washington.edu> hubert@cac.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes:
>DESCRIPTION:
>If the nameserver is inaccessible when the sendmail daemon is
>started it can come up with the wrong idea of its hostname.  This
>
>If you use the FQ name in your sethostname() call you don't have to
>worry about it.  But, it can be fixed anyway in daemon.c by causing

  If you use a freeze file you shouldn't have to worry about it either,
as long as the nameserver is running when you build the freeze file.
When running from a freeze file, sendmail decides who it is based on the
macro expansion of $j, which is saved in the freeze file.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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