HiHo:

While attempting to get sendmail working on this machine, I noticed
that local.m4 assumes the local mailer is /bin/mail. Seems kinda silly
to have that distributed with a system whose local mailer is
mail.local.

What would be ideal is an .mc file called generic, which would assume
that the machine will be a leaf node in a internet with a nameserver,
and that no fancy routing or masquerading is going on.

On to other questions...

Does anyone know of anything that would break if there was no user
called root? There would be a user with uid 0, but called something
else, maybe "super" or "dog" or something. For the sake of people
trying to send mail to the machine who have never heard of postmaster
or doing a generic finger, I might include a "root" alias,t o go to
whatever is uid 0.

Alternatively, is there anything that would break if the user called
root was not uid 0?

Thanks in advance
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