Dylon <glarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone had this problem. > I upgraded a test box with the sendmail patches from up2date. Worked fine, > I then up2dated the production server and sendmail refused to start again. > I rebuilt the config and tried to restart, nothing, errored out on invalid > switch on sm-client. and would not do anything after that. I rebooted and > Postfix came up!! I was thinking to myself is it quicker to configure > Postfix on the fly ( no experience ) or reinstall sendmail from the cd. > > So with the boss mumbling something behind me as he paces back and forth > watching my fingers fly at 200 wpm invoking all sorts of command line > incantations; thinking to myself hmm... hmm... am I fired yet. So I > reinstalled sendmail from the cd and copied over the /etc/mail with a back > up and in a stroke of the wrist, fixed... except the 10 minuets that our > 1500 customers couldn't send email. > > So back to my point anyone have this happen with the sendmail patches? > > or > > Did I just do something wrong ( to have postfix start up without the option > for sendmail) ? > Perhaps inadvertently removed sendmail? > > > > Dylon Crosby > System Administrator > sysadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > www.compplace.com > The Computer Place > PO Box 1099 > Friday Harbor, WA 98250 > 360-378-8488 - FAX 360-378-8496 > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > We also had a problem after installing the latest sendmail patch -- it seems the patch changed sendmail.cf so that sendmail would only accept mail from 127.0.0.1 (the default configuration, which we had changed by commenting out a line in sendmail.mc). When we finally rebuilt sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc (and put it in /etc/mail rather than /etc, where earlier versions had put it), things began working again. H. D. Wiebe hdwiebe@xxxxxxx -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
