On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 19:09, Richard A Nelson wrote: > So, what should be used there instead ? (my perl isn't great - > obviously)
Perl is sometimes a little bit - hmh - bitchy? :-) I'd suggest a two-liner like my( $input_file ) = @_; $input_file ||= $Parse_conf::Conffile; > > I *do* want to have /etc/mail/Makefile, but I do *not* want update_mk > > to ever touch (or remove) it. > > Any idea why it does that ? It was certainly my intent to allow exactly > what your are doing The Makefile is explicitly removed in line 100 of update_mk. > Thanks... there are, unfortunately, far too many ways to configure > sendmail, it seems impossible to cover all the bases :( That's true, but I think you covered most of the common cases. > By the way, what prompts you to use HANDS_OFF ? Is there something I > can fix It's just because I'm migrating an old installation with a hand-crafted sendmail.cf. It's too much work (at least at this moment) to create a new configuration using m4, therefore I need to prevent the sendmail package from constantly generating sendmail.cf from sendmail.mc. There's nothing you can do about this :-) Best regards, Tom -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Aeby, Kirchweg 52, 1735 Giffers, Switzerland, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice:(+41)26 4180040 PGP public key available -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
