[cobalt-users] RE: domain pointing at directory of another site

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:58 PM -0400 4/9/02, Andy Jacobs is rumored to have typed:

> The only problem I have is the e-mail section.  I followed the instructions
> but I have sendmail.cf instead of sendmail.cw and it's in /etc/mail rather
> than /etc.

   Eek! sendmail.cf is the sendmail configuration file. sendmail.cw is the
file configured from sendmail.cf to maintain a list of hosts for which the
machine will receive mail.

   Not to put too fine a point on it, but they are two _entirely_ different
files, with two _entirely_ different uses. You might want to spend some time
at www.sendmail.org bringing yourself up-to-speed on what configuration files
sendmail uses, and to what purpose it puts those files. (Mucking around with
sendmail is not as easy as copy/pasting stuff from posts, and this is coming
from someone who wrote one of the copy/paste posts for the archives; you
_really_ should have a general understanding of what sendmail's up to before
you screw around with any of these files.)

> I added domain.com and www.domain.com to the end (with my domain name) like
> it said and it buggered sendmail completely so that it wouldn't even start.

   I'm not the least bit surprised. I only hope you kept a backup, or at
least know how to recreate the sendmail.cf file from your .mc file.

         Charlie