Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:17:29 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail problems since today Message-ID: <00101120215803.00647@marbsd.mark.tninet.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010112000170.5233-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010112000170.5233-100000@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Dear Sirs. Got a lot of sendmail problems today, since I updated the > latest STABLE stuff and installed it. How can I make the default > sendmail.cf file like it is done at installation time? What is to > do to keep sendmail running like before without any additional things? > Thanks. > what version did you update from?.. exactly what sort of problems? ... did you read /usr/src/UPDATING? > 20000904: > A new issue with the sendmail upgrade has come to light. > /etc/aliases has moved to /etc/mail/aliases. Mergemaster will > incorrectly install the default aliases in /etc/mail rather than > move the old one from /etc. So you'll need to manually move the > file, create a symbolic link, remove the old /etc/aliases.db and > run newaliases. For safety sake, you should stop sendmail > while doing this and run the upgrade when locally sourced email > is not likely to be generated. -- These are just my opinions you are free to disagree please do so quietly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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