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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SUN sendmail
Message-ID: <3008@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 19:49:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 19:49:49 1987
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References: <315@edsews.UUCP>
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Keywords: sendmail smail sun
Summary: don't freeze the configuration file
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In article <315@edsews.UUCP>, roberts@edsews.UUCP (Ted Roberts) writes:
> During an install of smail 2.5 on a SUN 3/280 running version 3.2 of the 
> operating system, I ran into a problem with the domainname macro (normally
> $D).  Even though the domainname is defined in sendmail.cf, SUN appears to
> redefine it to be the Yellow Pages domainname.  Has anybody found a resonable
> workaround for this problem short of redefining the YP domainname.

I found that if you do not freeze the configuration file the domain name is
not changed.  The documentation SAYS that the YP domain name and the
organizational name are separate, but sendmail thinks otherwise, at least when
the sendmail.cf is frozen.  I don't know whether this is true of later Sun OS
3.x sendmails; I became so enraged with Sun's sendmail that I ported real
sendmail (4.3 BSD sendmail) to our Suns and have been happy since.

kyle jones  <kyle@odu.edu>  old dominion university, norfolk, va  usa