[Suns-at-Home] New Server

[Brian Costello]

    I recently took possession of a Sunfire V100 that I plan to use to 
upgrade from my old and trusty SS20 that supports my home network. I 
originally built the SS20 in 1998 to be a NAT router, web, mail, & ftp 
server. It has run somewhat flawlessly since it went live, but now the 
drives are starting to make some odd sounds as are the fans in the power 
supply, so I think it is time for an upgrade.

    I now have the Sunfire up and running under Solaris 9 with all the 
packages I need installed and running. I also made the switch from using 
my SS20 as a firewall/router to using my Linksys wireless router/switch 
with all of the necessary ports forwarded to the SS20. I only have a few 
things left to do before I can go live with the Sunfire. The most 
important of which is getting sendmail working. Under Solaris 2.6 I had 
to manually tweak the sendmail.cf but in Solaris 9 the newer version of 
sendmail is built in and I am a bit lost. I followed a few simple 
configuration guides I could find but I cannot get it to receive mail 
from external machines. Can anyone give me some advice on configuring 
sendmail under Solaris 9?  I am about to breakdown and buy the latest 
O'Reilly Sendmail book but I am not sure I have the bandwidth to dig in 
that deep. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Brian P. Costello               costellob@asme.org
San Francisco Bay Area