5. Frequently Asked Questions

smrsh will only allow sendmail to execute certain files. See Section 2.2.4.

For some reason, Red Hat does not include the necessary files to process mc files. According to /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, these files should be in the sendmail-cf package; however, I was unable to find this package on the CD. To fix this problem, install Red Hat's sendmail SRPM, uncompress the sendmail tarball, and copy the necessary macro files.

[root@kes root]# rpm -i sendmail-8.11.0-8.src.rpm [root@kes root]# cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ [root@kes SOURCES]# tar zxvf sendmail-8.11.0.tar.gz [root@kes SOURCES]# cd sendmail-8.11.0 [root@kes sendmail-8.11.0]# cp -R cf /usr/lib/sendmail-cf [root@kes sendmail-8.11.0]# cd .. [root@kes SOURCES]# rm -rf sendmail-8.11.0

Also in the default /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file, there is a slight syntax error. (The beginning single quotes on one line slant in the wrong direction.) The line that reads

define('ALIAS_FILE','/etc/aliases')dnl

should be changed to

define(`ALIAS_FILE',`/etc/aliases')dnl

After these two changes, the new sendmail.cf should be generated properly.