RE: Sendmail and m4: odd issue

["Cowles, Steve" <Steve SteveCowles com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Polk
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:03 PM
> Subject: Sendmail and m4: odd issue
> 
> 
> Okay, on a clients server I needed to make a change to the 
> sendmail.cf. So I made the changes to sendmail.mc like a
> good boy and m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf. The server wouldn't
> listen on the external port so I went into sendmail.mc and
> commented out the appropriate line like so:
> # dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
> Then I m4'd the mc ot cf again. This didn't work. The server 
> still wouldn't listen externally. I checked sendmail.cf and
> it appears that the line that mc should have changed didn't.
> 
> The line reading:
> O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
> 
> ...should read:
> # O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
> 
> Why would m4 fail?

Because a comment in m4 is "dnl" not #. i.e. add

dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')

in your .mc file. Then recreate you .cf file.

Steve Cowles