From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 17 14:27:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE89037BBF3 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA53511; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:27:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Steve VanDevender Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail.mc In-Reply-To: <14587.18215.302849.446478@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Steve VanDevender wrote: > Doug Barton writes: > > Steve VanDevender wrote: > > > > > the problem is that the FreeBSD install overwrote our > > > customized config file with no warning. > > > > How _exactly_ did you do the install? > > > > Doug > > Well, this is what is supposed to have happened. I didn't do the > upgrade procedure myself; I am just responsible for the mail stuff on > the machine in question. > > reboot > > cd /usr/src > make -DNOINFO installworld > make installworld > reboot > > > So if this is the "wipe out everything" install procedure, I guess I > know what happened. There is no way a make world install would blow away anything in /etc. The make world process leaves that directory completely untouched. It sounds to me like someone ran mergemaster and was not careful about what they were doing. Doug -- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. -- W. Somerset Maugham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message