[TriLUG] clock skew boot message and submit.cf inconsistency

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Sun Jun 29 00:22:05 EDT 2003


If you just want to make that message go away:
  vi /etc/mail/submit.cf
    :wq

That will save the file with the current date and time. The foo-bar on
the date setup seems to be prevalent in RH9, must be part of the rpm.

Jon

> Yeah, Chris's discussion didn't take into account the Ntp setup that's
> included in Red Hat Linux 9.  The 'proper' way to configure NTP and the
> date/time configuration is to run the 'redhat-config-date' utility,
> which is available from the 'start' menu, System Setttings, Date &
> Time.  (The time zone in there should already be correct, since we
> happen to live in the same timezone as the default for RHL.  Isn't that
> handy?  ;-)
> 
> But the stuff about services was right on the money.  There's a nice
> graphical tool to configure services, too, in that System Settings
> folder also.
> 
> The stuff about submit.cf has to do with your sendmail configuration. 
> Did you adjust your sendmail settings?  Did you remember to make the
> changes in both sendmail.mc and submit.mc, and run the 'make' command in
> /etc/mail to recreate the sendmail.cf and submit.cf files?
> 
> HTH,
> --Jeremy
> 




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