Problems setting up sendmail on slack 10

dthacker · 07-05-2004, 02:51 PM

Sendmail version 8.12.11 (installed with slack distro)
Objective: Set up slack box as an email server with sendmail and Pop3

Working directory: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf (This is where the Build command is located, so I decided to try to work from here. Docs say everything should be a directory above. They don't match reality)

I've copied the

Code:

sendmail-slackware.mc

to

Code:

sendmail.mc

. I've changed the line

Code:

include(`../m4/cf.m4')

to

Code:

include ('../../m4/cf.m4)

.
When I run

Code:

./Build sendmail.cf

I get

Code:

sendmail.cf:1637:/usr/bin/m4: Cannot open /usr/share/sendmail/cf/mailer/.m4:  No such file or directory

Code:

Error: No system type defined  (use OSTYPE macro)

There are lots of *.m4 files in /usr/share/sendmail/cd/mailer, but not an .m4 file by itself. The OSTYPE macro does exist in the sendmail.mc file.

Any ideas?

shilo · 07-05-2004, 05:04 PM

I had a lot of trouble when I tried setting up sendmail the first time. Maybe this will help you out. It's for Slackware 9.1, but it should still get you going.

http://shilo.is-a-geek.com/slack/sendmail18.html