RE: Sendmail and m4: odd issue

["Joe Polk" <listuser javelinux com>]

DOH!

<<JAV>>

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From: "Cowles, Steve" <Steve SteveCowles com>
To: "'redhat-list redhat com'" <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:22:52 -0600
Subject: RE: Sendmail and m4: odd issue

> > -----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
> 
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