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- Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!sgi!nimrod.wpd.sgi.com!roberts
- From: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com (roberts)
- Subject: Re: sendmail and timed problems. [2nd bug FIXED]
- Message-ID: <nqbqoig@sgi.sgi.com>
- Keywords: sendmail-lost mail-timed-machine not responding
- Sender: roberts@nimrod.wpd.sgi.com
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <1992Jul23.223713.6260@iitmax.iit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 06:31:13 GMT
- Lines: 53
-
- Patrick HURT writes:
- > A reply by mail gave me the fix (and problem) for this:
- >
- > 4.0.1 shipped with a defective sendmail.cf. If you change it, SGI won't
- > support it. Here's the bug:
- >
- > Line 477 in the supplied /usr/lib/sendmail.cf file is:
- >
- > R$*<$*..$Y>$* $1<$2.$Y>$3 tidy any double dot
- >
- > That line should be:
- >
- > R$*<$*..$Y>$* $1<$2.$Y>$4 tidy any double dot
-
- WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
- WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
- WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
- WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
-
- The "fix" is completely wrong. The second rewrite line is illegal and
- sendmail will tell you so if it ever tries to execute it. Note that
- the $Y on the LHS of the rewrite rule is a macro not a class so it
- does not increment the indefinite token match index, therefore there is
- *no* $4 to substitute on the RHS.
-
- > Now it works fine. Seems that sgi won't support a sendmail.cf which is
- > not theirs, even though THEIRS doesn't work. Quite strange, huh?
-
- What is strange is that this fraudulent advice is still being passed
- around on comp.sys.sgi even though I've posted this warning before.
-
- I'm glad to hear your mail works, but I can assure you that the "fix"
- above was not responsible. If you doubt me, I'll be glad to show
- you how to set up a test case. Installing the "fix" may have caused
- you to re-freeze the configuration file or take some other, unrelated,
- action that actually fixed things.
-
- The supplied sendmail.cf file is not broken. It works just fine for
- literally hundreds of customers. It does require proper configuration,
- and that is not always a trivial matter. Did you try the autoconfiguring
- version?
-
- > Anyway... Thanks to Doctor Math who gave me the answer.
-
- Whoever this "Doctor Math" is he's no sendmail.cf programmer. (This
- statement is not intended as a slight. Most normal humans would, rightly,
- take it as a compliment.) I repeat, the above change should NOT be made
- to your sendmail.cf file. "Doctor Math" would you PLEASE STOP telling
- people to do this.
-
- - Robert Stephens
- Silicon Graphics Inc.
-
-