mamros@cavedog.irc.cbm.dec.com (Shawn Mamros) (02/28/91)
Did you run bindsetup(8) on the diskless client? If you did (or if you set it up manually), double-check the definition of the D (domain name) macro in /etc/sendmail.cf: # grep DD /etc/sendmail.cf If it comes back saying DDlocal you need to change it to DDstanford.edu If that's been done, then make sure that the new config file has been frozen. Kill the sendmail daemon, freeze the config file with # /usr/lib/sendmail -bz then re-start the sendmail daemon. -Shawn Mamros E-mail to: mamros@irc.cbm.dec.com or mamros@crl.dec.com
mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon) (03/04/91)
More to the point, though, running sendmail on a diskless client is a _bad_ idea; some mail delivery agents depend on file system semantics that are not present with NFS. It is not unheard of for you to wind up with a corrupt mail file when two mail agents try to deliver at the same time. It's probably better to use something like POP from your file server, or do the "inc" with an rsh to the file server, since the Unix file system semantics should presumably work there. _MelloN_