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 startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date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"The startup script for sendmail then saw an apparently out-of-date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."
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Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.
Do NOT delete it.