[lbo-talk] techbeanie update, long Sunday afternoon

Charles A. Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Mon Jun 11 09:53:19 PDT 2007


``...I hope you are using the m4 macros...'' ravi

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Ahhh, hmm. Well, see I hum, ah. Nope. I poped that sendmail.cf right into an editor and hacked the motherfucker, straight up. I couldn't figure out what the submit.mc shit was for. Freebsd default install renamed the sendmail.cf and submit.mc something like freebsd.cf freebsd.mc so I deleted all that crap...saying to myself, submit? You mean for approval or something? Kiss my ass. I left the default submit.mc alone, figuring sendmail wouldn't take kindly to killing her children.

I mean I sort of understood what was going on. The m4 macros are there to make sure if you are twiddling the RULES set, they are compatible or conform to all the header conventions i.e. don't break email. But all I needed was a simple masquerade as my isp domain. It was an easy thing to do the old fashioned way, and I know enough to stay away from the RULES...

This was an example of changes in FreeBSD that were undocumented, so you can imagine the sinking feeling in my gut the first time I scanned the /etc directory and saw all this new shit I'd never heard of before.

CG



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