Sendmail, DNS help please!!
Hi all,
I already posted this once and apologize for posting again, but I really need help. I had sendmail installed on a RH 8 Pro server. Now, I had to wipe and rebuild the server for reasons I won't get into, but basically, before I wiped it clean, I copied ALL the files from the /etc/mail directory to floppy with the intention of copying them back into the new /etc/mail directory after the OS was reinstalled. Well, I did just that... Now, when sendmail starts at boot, I get this:
Starting sendmail: Makefile:1: warning: NUL character seen; rest of line ignored
Makefile :1: *** missing seperator. Stop.
554 5.0.0 No local mailer defined
554 5.0.0 QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
Starting sm-client: No local mailer defined
QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set
What does this mean? How can I fix it? Also, I did the same thing for the DNS & DHCP files in /etc, such as named.conf, dhcpd.conf, and so on. Also Samba. All of those services are starting and running fine, except although I am on the internet directly from the server (I am on it now to make this post), none of my Windows machines (which are the network clients) can access the internet. They are getting IP addresses, but not gateway information and such. Does anyone know why this may be?
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward does show a value of 1, so I believe I am forwarding packets.
I am still somewhat of a so please be gentle and feel free to treat me like a five year old! Thanks a million to anyone who can help!
Chris
Sorry, in other words, I did this:
Installed RH 8.0 with all the network services. They all started just fine at first boot.
I replaced all the files that RH created on its install with the files on floppies that I took from the machine before I wiped it. dhcpd.conf, named.conf, all the files in /etc/mail and /etc/samba were among the files replaced.
Sendmail started fine the first time I booted, but after I replaced all the files in /etc/mail with the files from the floppy, it started giving me the error shown above.
All other services are starting ok, but I have internet access ONLY from this server, not from the Windoze machines on the network.
Thanks, I hope that's a little more clear!
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