Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:56:31 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <20000414115631.A21360@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <14583.25974.124276.202895@darkwing.uoregon.edu>; from stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:37:42AM -0700 References: <E12fRXk-000FxI-00@rip.psg.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004121700090.11683-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <E12fVK5-000JvU-00@rip.psg.com> <38F6265B.F1B436F0@newsguy.com> <E12fqVG-0001P1-00@rip.psg.com> <38F6DBE1.C6BDB148@newsguy.com> <14583.23046.787588.254947@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <38F75E62.C8F36817@newsguy.com> <14583.25974.124276.202895@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 11:37:42AM -0700, Steve VanDevender wrote: > The point here is not whether or not I can rebuild or restore the system > customizations I've made; the point is that doing the FreeBSD update > eliminated an existing customized configuration that was pretty > important. Fortunately I know enough to be paranoid and keep copies of > things where the OS is not likely to stomp on them. But frankly I've > seen both Solaris and Digital UNIX do a better job of not wiping out > system customizations during OS updates and patch installs than FreeBSD > did here. This is FUD. I can't count the number of time's I've hosed my sendmail setup on a Solaris box when installing patches. It's not very nice, but it's FreeBSD is certaintly in good company here. Just about every time I patch a bunch of Solaris systems, I manage to forget to fix sendmail on one of them and have to fix mail problems later. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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