On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:37:24PM +0200, Martin S. Weber wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:45:43AM -0400, Andrew Brown wrote:
>> >$ makemap -vu hash genericstable.db
>> >root    Ephaeton@gmx.net
>> >@       @
>> >phaeton Ephaeton@gmx.net
>> >$
>> >
>> >Sendmail likes this very much :p
>> 
>> that rebuilds it as if it were an aliases database, so you get the
>> extra record.  how is the genericstable defined in your sendmail.cf?
>> can you show the output of grep genericstable /etc/mail/sendmail.cf,
>> please?
>
>Thanks for the explanation...
>
>$ grep genericstable /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>
>#####  Id: genericstable.m4,v 8.21 2001/03/16 00:51:26 gshapiro Exp  #####
>#####  $NetBSD: genericstable.m4,v 1.4 2003/06/01 14:06:46 atatat Exp $  #####
>Kgenerics hash /etc/mail/genericstable
>          ^^^^
>$
>
>I suppose the 'hash' is causing the trouble.

no, that's to be expected.  the syntax for a map is

    Kfoo bar wibble

where "foo" is the name used in the $(foo$) stuff on the right hand
side of rules, "bar" is the type of map (eg syslog, arith, hash, ldap,
etc), and wibble is zero or more arguments to the map.

>Well. Just wondering wether I went off trails with my config and it bit
>me now, or wether I followed the guide's steps and it bit me... I cannot
>check as I lost my .mc, sadly.. 
>
>Some more info: If I follow the guide, copy the skeleton provided there,
>I'm ending up with that:
>
>$ m4 guide.mc > bla.cf
>$ grep genericstable bla.cf
>#####  Id: genericstable.m4,v 8.21 2001/03/16 00:51:26 gshapiro Exp  #####
>#####  $NetBSD: genericstable.m4,v 1.4 2003/06/01 14:06:46 atatat Exp $  #####
>Kgenerics hash /etc/mail/genericstable
>          ^^^^
>Just wondering ... won't it bite other guide-trustworthy ppl like me ? ...
>Or is it sth different ?

still fine.

see my other (out of order) reply on this thread.  :)

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