[CentOS] update to 5.5 small issues

[James A. Peltier]

On Sun, 16 May 2010, fred smith wrote:

> a couple hours after the update (and requisite reboot and reinstallation
> of nvidia proprietary driver), I noticed I wasn't gettting any email.
> upon a little investigation, I noted that the update had replaced my
> custom sendmail.cf with its own. I don't recall updates to sendmail
> doing that previously,....

This did not happen for me and I just completed updating around 500 hosts. 
Each time it created a sendmail.file.rpmnew

> also, around that time my panels stopped unhiding, so they remained in a
> hidden state that I could not recover them from. logged off and on and
> it didn't help, in fact it was worse: no panels at all. so I did a
> reboot and now they seem to be working. I'll have to keep an eagle-eye
> on them.
>
> so far, all else seems well.
>
> Thanks to the whole team who makes Centos possible!
>
>

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