From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 21 20:42:21 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4335D16A417 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (vjofn-pt.tunnel.tserv1.fmt.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f00:ffff::5e5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0033613C49D for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (cpe-68-175-8-11.hvc.res.rr.com [68.175.8.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by vjofn.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id l9LKgHRB069558; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:42:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (localhost.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com [127.0.0.1]) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9LKgC1M046398; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:42:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ml@t-b-o-h.net) Received: (from tbohml@localhost) by himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com (8.13.8/8.13.6/Submit) id l9LKgCPb046397; Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:42:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tbohml) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" Message-Id: <200710212042.l9LKgCPb046397@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr (Giorgos Keramidas) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 16:42:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20071021200737.GA3761@kobe.laptop> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:42:21 -0000 > > On 2007-10-21 11:28, "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to upgrade my sendmail version in advance of upgrading to the > > next release of the OS. > > Why? > I can afford the time to start/stop sendmail here and there, but I have to schedule the maintenance window to upgrade this particular machine. > > > # cd /usr/src/lib/libsm > > # make obj && make depend && make > > # cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil > > # make obj && make depend && make > > # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail > > # make obj && make depend && make && make install > > This can be done only if you manage to upgrade Sendmail sources and > their build-glue manually, by following *exactly* the same process that > Gregory Shapiro (our native Sendmail maintainer) uses to do it. > So where do I find that? I took those instructions from previous FreeBSD Security announcements against sendmail. > > You are also missing some parts of Sendmail above, like: > > /usr/src/bin/rmail > /usr/src/usr.bin/vacation > /usr/src/etc/sendmail > rmail - 99% of delivery is procmail, but good point. vacation - Not used etc/sendmail - I don't use default mc's, and don't mind running older cf's on a newer version. The change between 8.13 and 8.14 wasn't enough for us to need to. > > The upgrade process used by Gregory Shapiro and the normal 'buildworld' > cycle takes care of all that and more. > > Why would you want to circumvent it, and risk breaking Sendmail? > See above... In the mean time, I got bored, so I did just that. Seems to be working fine, has processed about 15K emails since. Turns out it didn't fix my problem I originally thought it might, but in the time since also I've learned what the problem was. (Kernel hack to output /dev/console to syslog. Thanks, Tuc