Sendmail: Make doesn't make sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc

[lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org (Don Levey)]

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On 3/18/2011 08:59, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 03/17/2011 10:58 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote:
>> So it's just calling the script at /etc/mail/make:
>>
>> $ ls -l /etc/mail/make 
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2700 Sep 14  2010 /etc/mail/make
>>
>> 'make' has a debug mode, so you could, e.g.:
>>
>> cd /etc/mail && sudo make -d
>>
>> And that should print gobs of difficult to read but possible useful info on
>> why your aliases database is not being rebuilt.
> 
> 
> Along those same lines, you could just call from the command line what
> that make script is ultimately calling:
>    m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf
> 
So it seems that the sendmail-cf package was, for whatever reason,
installed incompletely.  I had a makefile, but I guess something else
was missing.  After removing and reinstalling that package, I was able
to get it to build the cf file.

The aliases database is something I tend to rebuild by hand as soon as I
alter it (/usr/bin/newaliases) so I'd not notice a make problem by
looking at that.

> 
>> success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
>>                                               <sir winston churchill>
> 
> Great quote :-)
> 

And so apropos to my life right about now!  :-)

Thank you all for the help,
 -Don
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