john@touch.uucp (John Weald) (07/10/90)
I'm running 386/ix 2.0.2 and have just installed the X7 patch. Now I am having problems with sendmail as follows: When I attempt to send mail to a SMTP host it fails with the following message in syslog file: Jul 9 12:00:54 local sendmail[933]: AA00931: to=john@touch, delay=00:00:00, stat=Host unknown I am still using my original sendmail.cf file. No nameserver. The host is reachable via rlogin et. al. I saved off the original sendmail executable before installing X7, when I copy it back things work just fine again. I've checked my /etc/hosts file, it looks fine, has internet address one tab then the machine name touch. Running sendmail -bt shows that it resolves the name correctly, identical to the old sendmail. I called ISC cutomer support, they told me to check my /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/hosts file which I have done. Now they will get back to me! Anybody had this problem? Any ideas? I also tried using the mailmgt option from sysadm to use one of the example sendmail.cf files - I get the exact same result. While using the mailmgt I noticed that it puts the wrong entry in the /etc/resolv.conf file. The file /usr/admin/menu/packagemgt/mailmgt has the following code: if [ "$nameserv" = "Y" ] then echo "nonameserver" >> /etc/resolv.conf else echo "nameserver $nameadd" >> /etc/resolv.conf fi which is clearly incorrect, it specifies that no nameserver is in use when one is and visa versa. Help! ---- John Weald, Touch Communications, Campbell, CA uunet!touch!jweald jweald@touch.com