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

[Matthew Gillen]

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


> success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
>                                               <sir winston churchill>

Great quote :-)

Matt