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From: GEHRI@cc.usu.edu (Gehri Grimaud)
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Subject: Re: Setting up a domain server
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In article <1990Oct8.001528.12430@rice.edu>, kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:
> ... But when I try to
> connect to port 25 with sendmail.mx set up as a daemon, it connects then
> freezes.

Did you copy sendmail.mx to sendmail?  I tried to just fire up
/usr/lib/sendmail.mx and saw un-results.  I usually do the following
excersize on all new systems after putting a sendmail.cf that I trust in
/etc:

kill any existing sendmail daemons...
mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.nomx
cp /usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail
(cd /etc; /usr/lib.sendmail -bz)
/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h

> I've heard mention that I have to modify the libc.so.1.5 so that
> it uses the domain name service to resolve host names rather than using
> the yp (er..NIS) stuff. Umm...HOW? :) 

In 4.1 all you have to do is set the B macro to -b in /var/yp/Makefile and
NIS does a DNS lookup as well as the regular NIS stuff...

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