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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (337)	11/22/2002 1:46:33 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Ahhh... Linux, the OS with the skeleton on the outside. (Better than broken bones on the inside?) I did try a *find / -name "" > allfiles.txt** (all character bold are actual commands and entries verbatim, including the quotes to prevent find barfing on the ) It made a file of 480KB and it searches lickety split. One caveat searchor is that the file produces a load of hits on a grep and right quick. A generalized search of the entire file on a common name produces too much screen flow. So to search something as commonas "Makefile" requires a secondary file construction and a second search OR a grep "your_searchstring" allfiles \| more* I still cannot see xinetd doing anything to sendmail itself unless you start it from xinetd. If you run it as a detached deamon from a startup script then xinetd should know nada boud id. It will of course bangle your pop3 server and not allow just any tomfool to dig into that. This fact is in man (5) host_access I do believe. Anudder ting dere I think, is how sendmail itself is setup. Inside (shudder) the sendmail.cf file is all sorts of settings as to whom you (the server) can relay or receive mail for etc ... This may have to be tweaked as in setting a file in /etc/mail called a Cw file for mail reception. It can also be set in the sendmail.cf file under the macro Cw. You will usually see localhost set there but other domains can be added as well. Sendmail may not be able to determine the hostname of the server if it has a mapped dotcom to it by DNS but the local name is slightly different. It may not. It (the dotcom name) can also be set in sendmail.cf. This kind of tweaking always gets odd results. I don't think more than a dozen individuals worldwide understand the innards of sendmail and they are trying to forget. Sendmail runs by DNS by default so it may require local DNS Mx records set to operate properly with mail reception directly at the box. I am sure you are aware of this even if you say you aren't. EC<:-}