Charles Gardner’s Effective IT Blog

Quick note:

When you do domain masquerading with sendmail, root is exempted from that by default.  No big deal unless the host name of your system is not actually registered in DNS.  I have a couple VMs that don’t need outside access or DNS registrations, but I’d like to receive their cron output cleanly.

This is a rather easy fix.  In most sendmail .mc files you will find the DOMAIN(generic) statement.  This refers to loading the generic.m4 file which includes a default statement to expose root without masquerading — EXPOSED_USER(`root’).  Copy the generic.m4 to mycustom.m4 and remove the EXPOSED_USER line.  Go to your .mc file and change the DOMAIN(generic) to DOMAIN(mycustom) and rebuild your sendmail.cf file.

Applications

This is a simple note to capture process.

• On the VMWare server, copy the guest’s directory to a new name.
  • cp -ax /vm/srv1 /vm/srv2
• Rename the vmdk disk image
  • cd /vm/srv2
  • vmware-vdiskmanager -n srv1.vmdk srv2.vmdk
• Rename the other files
  • mv srv1.* srv2.*
• Open the VM configuration and change the names there
  • vi srv2.vmx
  • :%s/srv1/srv2/
• In the VMWare host’s web console, use the Add Virtual Machine to Inventory to add the new VM.

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