Библиотека сайта rus-linux.net
Next: The sendmail.cf File Up: Sendmail+IDA Previous: Introduction to Sendmail+IDA
Configuration Files - Overview
Traditional sendmail is set up through a system configuration file (typically /etc/sendmail.cf or /usr/lib/sendmail.cf), that is not anything close to any language you've seen before. Editing the sendmail.cf file to provide customized behavior can be a humbling experience.Sendmail+IDA makes such pain essentially a thing of the past by having all configuration options table-driven with rather easy to understand syntax. These options are configured by running m4 (a macro processor) or dbm (a database processor) on a number of data files via Makefiles supplied with the sources.
The sendmail.cf file defines only the default behavior of the system.
Virtually all special customization is done through a number of optional
tables rather than by directly editing the sendmail.cf file. A list
of all sendmail tables is given in figure-
.
Figure:
sendmail Support Files.
Andrew Anderson
Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996