On 05/16/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 05/15/2010 11:23 PM, 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,....
Sounds like you installed a sendmail.cf that was not generated from /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and left the original sendmail.mc unmodified. The rpm updated the unmodified sendmail.mc configuration file. The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date sendmail.mc and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.cf.
Got the file names reversed in that last sentence. Sorry. Should read:
"The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date sendmail.cf and rebuilt it from the new sendmail.mc."