Quoting Marc Deslauriers <marcdeslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
It then created a new sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc.rpmnew!
This is not.
Did it leave a sendmail.cf.bak file? I have looked through the spec
file, through the init file and through the Makefile to try and find
some way for that to happen and I have come up empty. What's the date on
the sendmail.cf file? What's the date on the sendmail.mc file?
No, it did not leave a *.bak file. The files are:
$ ls -l sendmail*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57671 Mar 25 19:54 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57628 Mar 25 23:32
sendmail.cf.from.rpmnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58337 Mar 25 23:33 sendmail.cf.local
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5962 Apr 19 2004 sendmail.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6097 Mar 22 23:33 sendmail.mc.rpmnew
$ ls -lc sendmail*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57671 Mar 25 19:54 sendmail.cf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 57628 Mar 25 23:32
sendmail.cf.from.rpmnew
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58337 Mar 25 23:33 sendmail.cf.local
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5962 Apr 19 2004 sendmail.mc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6097 Mar 25 19:54 sendmail.mc.rpmnew
$
As noted, I created the *.cf.from.rpmnew and *.cf.local for comparison
purposes. The upgrade was obviously done around March 25 19:54.
What version of the sendmail packages did you have installed beforehand?
Could you have had a version that put it's sendmail.cf file in /etc?
Not sure. There was a /etc/sendmail.cf file on the machine:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58223 Apr 19 2004 /etc/sendmail.cf
So, at least at one time, it did have a sendmail that did put at
least sendmail.cf in /etc/ rather than /etc/mail/. There is also
a /etc/aliases on the machine:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1343 Mar 25 19:54 /etc/aliases
But I think that is still normal?
I am guessing it didn't create the .cf file from the .rpmnew file. It
probably just wrote out the sendmail.cf file from the rpm as it either
didn't think the sendmail.cf file that was already there belonged to the
previous sendmail package, or the sendmail.cf file from the previous
package was in a different location.
Probably it was the later.
So you have another rh9 machine that still has an old sendmail package
on it?
I think I might have one for immediate access. I might also have another
one but I won't have access to it until probably Wednesday.
I also seems to have created a new /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file, without
saving the old version, AFAICT.
It should have renamed the old one.
I've seen it do it both ways (saving and not saving) and have no idea
why... But then, I'm doing these on various systems running RHL 7.3,
RHL 9, and RHEL 3.x, so the results vary...
This is fixed in the package awaiting QA.
I never received an email about any such package...
I'm leaving this machine broken so if anyone has any questions I can answer
them.
Thank you.
Marc.
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