On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 11:21:53AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
>
> Now, someone stated I should not be editing .cf files by hand. Is
> this correct?
Regarding sendmail.cf the answer is "Sort of ...."
The default setup expects changes to be made in the *.mc files!
See the warning in sendmail.cf
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Only edit the source .mc file.
If you:
cp sendmail.cf sendmail.cf-safe
touch sendmail.mc # or make a minor edit
make -C /etc/mail
diff sendmail.cf sendmail.cf-safe
# now restore your correct config...!
you will note that sendmail.cf gets rebuilt
and your hand crafted edits vanish.
So if you are a sendmail wizard this should work.
#once only!
cp -i sendmail.cf sendmail.cf.MASTER
vi sendmail.cf.MASTER
cp sendmail.cf.MASTER sendmail.cf
service sendmail restart
# perhaps comment out the sendmail.mc/cf stuff in the Makefile
A key point is that for any generated configuration text file there is
a need to understand the generation process. Some generated files do
invite hand edits because the GUI does not yet address all the options.
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