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Sendmail M4 base directory

Anonymous
2003-04-07
2004-03-09
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2003-04-07

    When trying to use the Sendmail M4 configuration I get the message that the'Sendmail M4 base directory' cannot be found or is incorrect.
    Where is it meant to be and what does it contain?
    Is it the directory containing the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files or is it something to do with M4 itself?
    Any help gratefully accepted:)
    Tony

     
    • Michael Mansour

      Michael Mansour - 2003-04-07

      From memory, /etc/mail for newer sendmail versions and /etc for older sendmail versions.

      You should have the sendmail.mc file, which is what Webmin is looking for.

      Michael.

       
      • Anonymous

        Anonymous - 2003-04-07

        I have tried various directories, the sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc files are in /etc/mail yet not recognised.
        Is this a bug?
        If not what is meant to go here?
        Tony

         
        • Anonymous

          Anonymous - 2003-04-07

          This directory is part of the source, on my system it is
          /usr/local/src/sendmail-8.12.9

          the cf directory being as shown on the next line

          /usr/local/src/sendmail-8.12.9/cf/m4/cf.m4

          Hope this helps.

          Tony

           
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2003-04-07

      i cant seem to get this working, and it's really hurting my head,, lol.

      The Sendmail M4 configuration base directory /etc/mail was not found on your system, or is not the correct directory. Maybe it has not been installed (common for packaged installs of Sendmail), or the module config is incorrect.

      now, i KNOW it's there, becasue i can go an edit it manualy ( if i knew what all the options were in there, and i dont )

      heres my dir.

      [root@localhost mail]# ls /etc/mail
      access          helpfile          Makefile     statistics     virtusertable
      access.db       local-host-names  sendmail.cf  submit.cf      virtusertable.db
      domaintable     mailertable       sendmail.cw  submit.mc
      domaintable.db  mailertable.db    sendmail.mc  trusted-users

      i even have the M4 full path to file set, and it's there.... so i dont know.

      any advice?

       
    • Anonymous

      Anonymous - 2004-03-09

      It took me the better part of the evening, but by following the trace in the CGI, i finally understood what the script was expecting...:

      /usr/share/sendmail/cf

      ... the directory that contain a subdirectory called m4, itself containing the so called 'features' ... arg!

      Hope this will help others... I'm using sendmail+webmin in debian.

       

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