About to update sendmail, but a few questions first.

[Julian Field]

At 14:42 31/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm running MailScanner with sendmail on redhat 8. I'm about to update the
>sendmail package, but because of troubles doing that in the past I thought
>I'd ask the group. Is there anything I need to be aware of before I update
>sendmail? Is there anything I need to do after? Has anyone here done it yet?

You will probably find that doing the update will do a
         service sendmail restart
which you don't want. One easy way to stop that is, *before* you update, to
add some intentional syntax errors to
         /etc/sysconfig/sendmail

My copy of that file says this:

DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1h

this is a syntax error to make service sendmail start barf horribly so that
it cannot be started by accident.

exit

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Julian Field
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