Summary: sendmail logging problems w/Ultrix

[Brian White]

I recently asked the following question. Although I didn't get an enormous
number of responses, I *did* get my answer. Since we (NJIT) are going off the 
net for a brief period of time, I thought I'd get a summary out.

First, my question:

>I compiled and installed sendmail 5.65 on a VAX 8530 running Ultrix 3.1 (with
>both gcc and cc and using ndbm). It receives and delivers mail OK (well, a
>*few* minor config problems exist... :^), but doesn't log *any* messages to
>/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog. I know differences exist between Ultrix (4.2-based)
>and BSD 4.3 syslog, but the sendmail logging code seems to support both. I
>defined LOG in conf.h.
>
>Any hints/ideas?
>
 
Paul Pomes (Paul-Pomes at uiuc.edu) suggested checking whether mail logging is
enabled; running main.c through the preprocessor to check if openlog has the
correct number of arguments; see if sendmail.cf has a logging level of 9 or
greater; running without the sendmail.fc.

Well, none of these rang the bell....

Neil Rickart (rickart at cs.niu.edu) got it. He suggested (based on painful
experience, of course) adding localhost.your.domain to the site nameserver
database. It seems the resolver library (linked into sendmail) uses
gethostbyname() to identify the local host and open a connection. Voila!

Thanks to both Neil and Paul for their time and assistance.
Brian White
System Programmer
New Jersey Institute of Technology
brw at hertz.njit.edu brw at njit.edu brw at jazz.njit.edu