From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 11 11:25:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ECBD937B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 18537 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2000 20:25:12 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-7-17.bb.tninet.se (HELO marbsd.mark.tninet.se) (62.5.7.17) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 11 Oct 2000 20:25:12 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands To: "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail problems since today Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:17:29 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00101120215803.00647@marbsd.mark.tninet.se> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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