At 02:37 AM 1/3/01 +1300, Alan Brown wrote:
>On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> > >_WHY_ are people updating from sendmail 8.6 to 8.9.3 instead of 8.11 or
> > >8.12? 8.9 isn't supported anymore for starters....
> >
> > "If it ain't broke...." If you're not a full-time admin, it takes time
> > to learn the migration issues. Migrating from 8.9 means files move
> > around. What changes going from 8.10 to 8.11?
>
>Migrating from 8.6 means files move around too.
>
>8.10 -> 8.11 brings in TLS(*) and a bunch of stability fixes.
On my side, it's not that files are moving around but that there are other
systems that may be affected by the changes.
We have tested 8.9.3 and have it working on other systems so when we
upgrade, we just have to do the upgrade without two months of testing to
make sure something doesn't break.
The mail system is not standing alone but has other systems that depend on
it; x.500 (ldap lookups), mailing lists (the "dontblamesendmail" stuff
caused a couple of hours of "WTF!" errors in the logs until I figured out
the group writable includes problem), forwarding (what do you mean, can't
use forwarding because of a group writable forward!? I still can't find
that group writable forward so I'm rewriting the procmail script to be a
.sh script instead.), and any *other* frigging scripts that depend on
certain behavior.
And I didn't write these dependencies but I have to support them.
And there's just two of us here doing the admin work.
Bleeding edge bleeds for a reason.
Carl Schelin
--
If we really did learn from our mistakes,
Most of us wouldn't get up in the morning.
-- AEN
Carl Schelin (BOFH, Badlife, DNRC, Sun Certified SA and NA)
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