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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: Updating Sendmail 
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At 09:40 AM 8/24/01 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
>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


Just a thought and not sure if it will work.  But what about nfs mounting 
/usr/src and /usr/obj from another upto date machine.
cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
make depend
make
make install


         ---Mike


>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
>
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