lovstran@zany.EuroPARC.Xerox.COM (Lennart Lovstrand) (06/01/90)
In article <7666@ur-cc.UUCP> Mark Sirota <msir@cc.rochester.edu> writes: > The system: VAXstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.0. > > The problem: The following two lines show up in /usr/spool/mail/syslog when > I try to freeze the configuration: [lines broken for readability. Also, the > ^A's are really control-A's. > > > May 29 16:24:22 localhost: 20792 sendmail: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: > > /usr/lib/sendmail.cf: line 388: invalid rewrite line > > "R^A+@^A+ ^A2!^A1 Change to UUCP format" Unless there is some mailer/news system between us that does tab-to-space conversion, it looks like your rewrite lines has spaces instead of tabs between the pattern/result/comment fields. Yup folks, just like make(1), random whitespace just won't do. The ^A's are what sendmail converts $+'s to internally. > I don't see anything wrong with this, and I'm not getting errors on other > machines (this is our only Ultrix machine) with the same configuration > file. What's going on here? P'haps you used some window based editor/terminal emulator to copy the lines from one sendmail.cf to another and lost the tabs on the way? -- --Lennart <Lovstrand.EuroPARC@Xerox.COM> Rank Xerox EuroPARC, 61 Regent St, Cambridge, CB2 1AB, England Random IBM PC clone: "Missing keyboard; hit F1 to continue."