On 07/28/2015 04:09 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Fred Smith > <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 01:23:07PM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Fred Smith >>> <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: >>>> FYI, I ran all the (then current) updates from the CR repo this morning, >>>> and found that it stepped on my sendmail.cf. (presumably the sendmail >>>> rpm was the culprit.) >>>> >>>> I wouldn't think that was the desired beavhior, would you? I'd expect it >>>> to drop either a rpm.old or rpm.new file instead. >>>> >>>> luckily, easy to fix once I figured out why incoming mail was busticated. >>> >>> If you look into the /etc/mail directory, don't you see >>> sendmail.cf.bak? At least in my case, that file was created by >>> sendmail* update. >>> >>> Akemi >> >> Yes, I do. >> >> Nevertheless, it seems kinda rude of it to break a working >> configuration... >> >> But I'm no expert, what do I know? :) > > Sounds like you edited sendmail.cf directly. That's not the standard > configuration file for local changes, those usually live in > sendmail.mc and are processed with the m4 macro language. As I > remember sendmail from.... oh, a very long time ago, you need to use > the "sendmail.fc" or "frozen configuration" config file if you want to > protect it from rebuilds based on sendmail.mc. > > Personally, I gave up on sendmail in favor of postfix a decade ago. > The only reason I use anything other than postfix these days is if I > want to have /etc/aliases and procmail read for local email addresses, > and SMTP relay for 'name at host.com' email addresses. The only SMTP > server I've seen that handles both at the same time is exim. I agree that is likely what happened, if the sendmail.mc file does not match the sendmail.cf file, it backs up the cf file and creates a new one from the cm file. That is the standard behavior, and this is not the first version where that happens: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1196342 I personally don't like this method, but it is what postfix updates do, and it is by design in RHEL. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20150728/e0e63b97/attachment-0008.sig>