Re: Server installation

[John Summerfield <summer os2 ami com au>]

> On 2001-05-31, Kalevi Nyman wrote:
> 
> >Sorry Michael Schwendt  !
> >
> >The reconfig of sendmail.cf did not cure the problem.
> 
> Not so impatient, please. Based on your minimal mail I've had to
> guess whether you'd wanted to allow local mail only or incoming
> mail.
> 
> Did you configure /etc/hosts.allow appropriately? - I bet you didn't.
> Did you run "service sendmail restart"? - I bet you didn't.
> 
> >Senmail does not establish a connection to a calling machine.
> 
> # /etc/hosts.allow
> sendmail: allow
> 

I have a workstation install of RHL 7.1.

The two files are empty. This, apparently, os the default condition.

According to the documentation, ACCESS CONTROL FILES
       The access control software consults two files. The search stops 
at the  first
       match:
 
       ·      Access  will be granted when a (daemon,client) pair 
matches an entry in
              the /etc/hosts.allow file.
 
       ·      Otherwise, access will be denied when a (daemon,client) 
pair matches an
              entry in the /etc/hosts.deny file.
 
       ·      Otherwise, access will be granted.
 
       A  non-existing  access  control  file is treated as if it were 
an empty file.
       Thus, access control can be turned off by providing no access 
control files.

This the default condition is no control.

Now we go back to my original statememt. I modified /etc/sendmail.cf  
(I normally use the m4 macroes. but the changes I wanted to make are 
simple) and so I didn't bother.

Here are the total changes:
[summer possum summer]$ diff -B -b  emu.cf /etc/sendmail.cf -u
--- emu.cf      Fri Jun  1 08:04:13 2001
+++ /etc/sendmail.cf    Wed May 23 07:19:25 2001
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
 CP.
 
 # "Smart" relay host (may be null)
-DS
+DSmail.os2.ami.com.au
 
 
 # operators that cannot be in local usernames (i.e., network 
indicators)
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
 CEroot
 
 # who I masquerade as (null for no masquerading) (see also $=M)
-DM
+DMos2.ami.com.au
 
 # my name for error messages
 DnMAILER-DAEMON
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
 
 # SMTP daemon options
 
-O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
+#O DaemonPortOptions=Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA
 
 # SMTP client options
 #O ClientPortOptions=Address=0.0.0.0
[summer possum summer]$

The file "emu.cf" is from my host emu; it has the unaltered sendmail.cf
The other is on my workstation and accepts connections from the network.

The hosts.* files on both systems have no significant lines - they are 
as installed.


-- 
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John Summerfield

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