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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Ultrix sendmail.cf quesion
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.183416.26506@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 6 Nov 90 18:34:16 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.174059.7522@hollie.rdg.dec.com> jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) writes:
>
>With the standard ULTRIX, the usual cause of this is not refreezing the
>config file or not restarting sendmail or both.

	I've made a fool of myself a few times by freezing the config file
in single-user mode, when the hostname hasn't been set yet. That way you have
a compiled in null hostname, and get lots of errors.

mjr.