2.6 Test ItJust to make sure that sendmail built correctly, test it with the following arguments:
Pay no attention to the If, instead of running, sendmail hangs, you will have to go back to Section 2.4.2, "Eliminate DNS Support" and redefine NAMED_BIND. If your site has never run sendmail before, you will get a complaint like this:
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 0: cannot open: No such file or directory This shows that sendmail ran but couldn't find its configuration file. If your site is new to sendmail , you won't be able to run the examples to follow. But don't worry, we'll be creating a configuration file of our own soon enough. Another problem that might happen on a machine running an old (pre-V8) version of sendmail is the following:
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 273: replacement $3 out of bounds /etc/sendmail.cf: line 297: replacement $3 out of bounds If this happens, you will still be able to run sendmail to follow along in early examples. Just bear in mind that you will be seeing these errors until we start designing our own configuration file. |
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