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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcunb.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8.3 and BSDI 2.0
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 21:12:23 GMT

Darryl Watson <dwatson@stout.entertain.com> writes:
> I obtained the generic sendmail source, but, according to the READ_ME, 
> BSDI and FreeBSD systems have serious problems with the m4 command, as 
> compiled generically.

  That's old info, pertaining to BSD/OS 1.0.

> Has anyone gotten the upgrade to work on a similar system, and if so, 
> what did you do?  Do you use m4?

  I've installed 8.8.0/8.8.2/8.8.3 from the generic sendmail kits on BSD/OS
2.0.1 and 2.1 boxes with no problems. Just remember that you don't use "make"
for this, you use "makesendmail".

	Terry Kennedy		  Operations Manager, Academic Computing
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