On 2006-04-10 13:45:01 +1200, Parker Jones wrote: > Is the sendmail.mc replaced during the update? Should there be a backup of the > old version e.g as sendmail.mc.rpmnew? I didn't find one. Why is there a > sendmail.cf.rpmnew and not a sendmail.mc.rpmnew? Configuration files are silently replaced during an upgrade if they haven't been changed locally. If they have been changed, they are left alone and the new config file from the package is stored with a .rpmnew suffix[0]. So, if you have a sendmail.cf.rpmnew, but no sendmail.mc.rpmnew, it is most probably the case that you changed the sendmail.cf, but not the sendmail.mc. Maybe you just rebuilt the .cf file at one time (it contains a a line which looks like a timestamp, so it would appear to be changed even if the "real" content was the same). hp [0] Or sometimes, they are replaced and your file is renamed to .rpmsave. I still haven't figured out when that happens. -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | If I wanted to be "academically correct", |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | I'd be programming in Java. | | | hjp wsr ac at | I don't, and I'm not. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Jesse Erlbaum on dbi-users
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