I'm with Frank. I too can confirm the .mc file gets overwritten for seemingly no good reason. I have several tweaks in my file that when replaced causes mail to stop flowing In my environment. It's quite frustrating to one day discover my mail server is "broken" and I have to go in and re-apply my config file changes.
On Apr 6, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Frank Soyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Le 04/04/2012 16:17, Michael Stauber a écrit : >>>> Generally you shouldn't modify your sendmail.cf. Any modification should >>>> go into sendmail.mc, which our updates will never overwrite. So whenever >>>> sendmail.cf is rebuilt from the sendmail.mc during an update, your >>>> changes will be retained. >>> Are you sure ? When I modify the .cf, I need to compile the .mc file as >>> sendmail only know this one. >> Yes, I am sure. The sendmail.cf is compiled from the sendmail.mc, so your >> changes ought to go into sendmail.mc > Sorry to come back to this issue. I was busy last days but I've recheck > my configuration this morning : in fact I was not upside down... It's > the sendmail.mc file that I modified, not the .cf, then compiled > sendmail.cf. So it's really the .mc file, modified, that is overwritten > by the updates. > > If you confirm that this is not a right way for yum to do the updates, > what can be the reason for it to overwrite this file ? I think that if > this file is overwritten, no reason for others configuration files to be > overwritten. And there is always some tweaks on a server ! > > Thanks. > Frank > _______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
