From owner-freebsd-security Fri Aug 24 8:41:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835FB37B403 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA15047; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:40:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010824093513.048b8dc0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:40:06 -0600 To: David Pick , Spades From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Updating Sendmail Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:27 AM 8/24/2001, David Pick wrote: >Sorry, I think (now) Brett was asking how to build sendmail >*as included in the base OS* without doing a full OS build. >I don't know the answer to that one. The other thing I don't want to do is clobber vital files on a working server or take the server down for very long. Installing Sendmail from scratch, or even rebuilding it, could clobber the .mc, .cf, aliases, et cetera. (Yes, I plan to back these up, but it'd be nice if there were an upgrade procedure that would eliminate the need for this.) It'd be nice to replace the binary, kill the task, restart, and go... nice and quick, so that users don't notice and no mail is lost or delayed appreciably. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message