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Post subject: Sendmail CF file changes automatically EH?

Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 10:25 PM

Joined: Jun 24, 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Canvey Island

I know it sounds mad but this is whats happening.

While setting up my webserver I changed my sendmail.cf file to reflect my local IP. I did this in the evening.

Code:

O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet, Name=MTA-v4, Port=smtp, Addr=10.168.0.10

Then in the morning it's been changed back to

Code:

O DaemonPortOptions=Family=inet, Name=MTA-v4, Port=smtp, Addr=127.0.0.1

mail then stops working.

I change it back in the morning and in the evening it's changed back again.

It's doing this twice every day.

I'm stumped ?? Does anyone know how I can fix this.

:EDIT:

OK I did a little more probing about but can't put my finger on it. I made the sendmail.cf file read only after correcting it and did a reboot. Same again, it changed the ip back to 127.0.0.1 and the file has read and write atrib.

What the heck is going on ?

max.

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Posted: Aug 02, 2006 - 02:48 PM

Joined: Jun 24, 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Canvey Island

OK, I found the answer to the problem, I just don't understand how to implement this in Kanotix.

This is such a steep learning curve.

Code:

Date: June 15, 2000 

If you have used linuxconf's module "mailconf" just once, it will rewrite your sendmail.cf on every reboot 

if it sees that sendmail.cf is changed from linuxconf. The solution is to remove the mailconf module from linuxconf. 

Turn on linuxconf and go to item 

   Control files and systems > Configure Linuxconf modules

Scroll down to "Module path -> mailconf" and turn off the button "this module is active", then click

 "Accept" and "quit" to quit linuxconf. 

This will disable linuxconf's control of sendmail. Build sendmail.cf again from sendmail.mc (see 5.3.1),

 and restart sendmail.

If someone can help me with this I'd be very grateful.

max.

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Posted: Aug 03, 2006 - 08:39 AM

Joined: Jun 24, 2006
Posts: 27
Location: Canvey Island

Found the problem and fixed it. If anyone ever has the same problem then this will help.

When sendmail is started via the /etc/init.d/sendmail script it checks the file /etc/mail/sendmail.cf (among others) and compares it with data in file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc - if any part of the sendmail.cf file is not the same then it changes it.

It might even rebuild the sendmail.cf file every boot without checking I'm not entirly sure.

I'm also not 100% sure if I did the correct thing in editing the sendmail.mc but it now works and no ip changing after reboot.

Whats a pain in the a$$

max.

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