From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 24 07:39:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16015 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:39:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16009 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:39:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA26612; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:35:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 09:35:43 -0500 (CDT) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: BEAUPRE Antoine Subject: RE: Missing sendmail.cf... Cc: freebsd-questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Oct-98 BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > > I recently crashed my root partition, and with it alll of my configuration > files... I achieve a almost complete recovery, doing a "make world" and > still having the /usr/src partition helping a lot. > > But then I saw that I had no /etc/sendmail.cf file! How come? Isn't 'make > world' supposed to recreate the /etc files? No. This would be a Bad Thing for make world to do automatically. :-) Nik Clayton has provided the definitive tutorial on upgrading via sources at: http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html See section 6 on updating /etc. -- Conrad Sabatier Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, but when you finally get to know them in person, they turn out to be even worse. -- Avery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message