On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 05:09:33AM -0400, 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 No, I have a .mc file and generate sendmail.cf. but it's still a pain to have an important subsystem broken by an update that drops a config file on top of the locally configured one. > 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. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart." ---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv) ------------------------------