From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 14 11:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849FF37B601 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24904; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:56:31 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Steve VanDevender Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Randy Bush , "Brandon D. Valentine" , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <20000414115631.A21360@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <38F6265B.F1B436F0@newsguy.com> <38F6DBE1.C6BDB148@newsguy.com> <14583.23046.787588.254947@darkwing.uoregon.edu> <38F75E62.C8F36817@newsguy.com> <14583.25974.124276.202895@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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