Sendmail and UUCP

[Stephen Harris]

In article <1991Jan07.204432.8480 at decuac.dec.com> avolio at decuac.dec.com writes:
>If you are running the standard ULTRIX sendmail.cf it needs editing.  Check
>to make sure that the line with FZ at the beginning is not commented out.
>(It should *not* have a # in front of it.)  While you are editing you might
>change the file name listed to the correct path (it says
>/usr/lib/uucp/L.sys and it should now be /usr/var/uucp/L.sys).
>

This was exactly the problem.  Once I had altered this so the line was
uncommented I could re-comment the test for hostname OK and it worked

Thanks

>Then refreeze the sendmail configuration file (issue "/usr/lib/sendmail -bz"
>as root) and kill and restart sendmail. 
Didn't even need to kill and restart sendmail, just refroze it :-)
(But I killed it anyway, just to be safe)

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