[Gllug] sendmail and local users

[Jonathan Dye]

Magnus Nilsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 12:36, Jonathan Dye wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> A box I help administer is in the process of changing hostname. 
>> There are a dns entries for the oldname and the new name so both
>> resolve correctly and the reverse lookup resolves to the new name. 
>> The problem we have is with mail delivery.  When sending mail from
>> the box (by invoking sendmail) the mail gets the old hostname
>> appended to the username and we can't work out why.  Could someone
>> suggest why it's not picking up the new hostname for this? hostname
>> reports the new hostname and there is no reference to the old
>> hostname in sendmail.cf that we can see. 
>> 
> 
> 'grep -ri <oldhostname> /etc'

The /etc/mail/sendmail.cw file contains the old hostname and the new
hostname (new hostname first), is that the problem?

JD

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