[TriLUG] no m4

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Tue Nov 12 16:20:34 EST 2002


On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:21, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> Uh-oh
> 
> I just built a redhat 8 box with security set to high and I allowed
> dns:tcp in addition to checking smtp as an allowable port.  During
> install the only packages I selected during custom install were mail
> server and dns server.  I thought this would be a good base to work from
> in playing with sendmail.  
> 
> After rebooting the box I vi'ed the sendmail.mc to dnl the localhost
> line and replace the Cw line with the host's fqdn.  No problems there.
> When I try to m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf from /etc/mail it seems that
> m4 is missing.  Did I miss it in my package selection ?  If so how can I
> get it without a bunch of other clutter ?

Do you have the sendmail-cf package installed?  This is required in
order for m4 to work right.  (I believe this is mentioned in JonC's
notes from the mail seminar.)

You can install sendmail-cf (or m4 for that matter) straight from your
CD, or by running "up2date -i <packagename>" .   Or download from the
TriLUG mirrors:  http://members.trilug.org/ for the info.

--Jeremy




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