From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 13:46:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8DD437B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kory@avatar.com) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f7TKi5UM001696; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:44:05 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: "Trevin Chow" Cc: Subject: RE: Questions about upgrade Sendmail Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:46:15 -0700 Message-ID: <008501c130cb$a5615bc0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Because sendmail.cf may change from release to release. If you ever want to go back to an older version, its a good idea to backup the /etc/sendmail.* files. > -----Original Message----- > From: Trevin Chow [mailto:trevin@mail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:29 PM > To: 'Kory Hamzeh' > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: Questions about upgrade Sendmail > Importance: High > > > >I've always grabbed the version I've wanted from www.sendmail.org and > >compiled it in a private directory. Then I copied sendmail to > >/usr/sbin/senmail. Make sure you keep a backup copy of sendmail and its > >config files. Also, "make install" may work, I don't remember off-hand. > > Why would I have to keep a copy of the config files? Would I just have > to replace the sendmail binary in /usr/sbin? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message