Group: comp.mail.sendmail


Subject: local.cf / Vendor code error ?
From: Bill Cole
Date: 12/18/2007 4:48:29 PM
In article <26dbf166-63b3-490f-986c-6d45e1db78c0@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, Gromit Wallace <gromitwallace@lycos.com> wrote: > After I loaded the 10_recommended on the machine, the Vendor Code > error disappeared > and I have the second sendmail process. The vendor code warning was a sign that you were using a non-Sun sendmail binary with a Sun cf file, and that is not a workable combination. Sun customizes their binary and uses that vendor code in the cf file to make suure that the mistake of mixing Sun and non-Sun Sendmail is noisy. This sounds suspiciously as if you installed your own build of Sendmail without removing Sun's Sendmail packages first. When you applied the standard recommended patch cluster, it saw those packages as still being installed and happily overwrote your Sendmail binary with the latest Sun version. That leaves your system in a state that is hard to know, and probably not worth trying to figure out. Your best options to clean things up would be: 1. Remove, reinstall, and repatch the Sun Sendmail packages and live with the Sun variant. 2. Remove the Sun Sendmail packages and rebuild your own version from the standard source distribution. -- Now where did I hide that website...