[olug] sendmail setup problems in Slackware 10

[Sam Tetherow]

Juding from the fact that it is looking for the .m4 file in the mailer 
directory, I would guess that it is a problem in one of the MAILER() 
lines.  Try commenting them out one at a time and see when it goes 
away.  That will atleast tell you where to start looking.

Dave Thacker wrote:

>I'm trying to get sendmail set up on Slackware 10.  I'm following some install 
>notes located at http://www.hgriggs.com/sendmail.html  I'm using the sendmail 
>that came with the distro V8.12.11.   The contents of the the generic 
>slackware mc file are as follows:
>dnl# This is the default sendmail .mc file for Slackware.  To generate
>dnl# the sendmail.cf file from this (perhaps after making some changes),
>dnl# use the m4 files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf like this:
>dnl#
>dnl# cp sendmail-slackware.mc /usr/share/sendmail/cf/config.mc
>dnl# cd /usr/share/sendmail/cf
>dnl# sh Build config.cf
>dnl#
>dnl# You may then install the resulting .cf file:
>dnl# cp config.cf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>dnl#
>include(`../m4/cf.m4')
>VERSIONID(`default setup for Slackware Linux')dnl
>OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
>dnl# These settings help protect against people verifying email addresses
>dnl# at your site in order to send you email that you probably don't want:
>define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
>dnl# Uncomment the line below to send outgoing mail through an external 
>server:
>dnl define(`SMART_HOST',`mailserver.example.com')
>dnl# No timeout for ident:
>define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl
>dnl# Enable the line below to use smrsh to restrict what sendmail can run:
>dnl FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
>dnl# See the README in /usr/share/sendmail/cf for a ton of information on
>dnl# how these options work:
>FEATURE(`use_cw_file')dnl
>FEATURE(`use_ct_file')dnl
>FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
>FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
>FEATURE(`access_db', `hash -T<TMPF> /etc/mail/access')dnl
>FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
>FEATURE(`local_procmail',`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
>FEATURE(`always_add_domain')dnl
>FEATURE(`redirect')dnl
>dnl# Turn this feature on if you don't always have DNS, or enjoy junk mail:
>dnl FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
>EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
>dnl# Also accept mail for localhost.localdomain:
>LOCAL_DOMAIN(`localhost.localdomain')dnl
>MAILER(local)dnl
>MAILER(smtp)dnl
>MAILER(procmail)dnl
>
>I've tried just re-naming this file to sendmail.mc and running "Build 
>sendmail.cf" to get a starting config.  I get this error:
>
>sendmail.cf:1637: /usr/bin/m4: Cannot open /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer/.m4: 
>No such file or directory
>*** ERROR: No system type defined (use OSTYPE macro)
>
>There are several .m4 files in the referenced directory, but not an m4 file 
>alone.  The second error seems bogus as well, since I have OSTYPE defined 
>near the top of the sendmail.mc file.  
>
>Any ideas on what I should have for an .m4 file?
>
>TIA
>
>DT
>
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