Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:28:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, randy@psg.com, bandix@looksharp.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <14583.25392.604675.326430@darkwing.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <200004141801.LAA16303@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <14583.23046.787588.254947@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <200004141801.LAA16303@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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Chad R. Larson writes: > As I recall, Steve VanDevender wrote: > > Updating from FreeBSD 3.2 to 4.0 stomped on that customized > > configuration, without any warning that was apparent to us, and we > > didn't find out until one of the other admins noticed that it was no > > longer building the proper alias databases. > > RCS is your friend. If you check your changes into the library > having it stomped is no trauma. Just check it out again. > > Policy here is no configuration files are to be changed outside of > revision control. I use RCS all the time. The problem is not with my not keeping the files in RCS; the problem is that the FreeBSD install overwrote our customized config file with no warning. At the very least it should have renamed the existing sendmail.cf before installing its own, and it should have also flagged that it was overwriting sendmail.cf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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