OT: Sendmail {Scanned by HJMS}

[NTIN Page Guy]

Hello Trever,

 Thursday, September 18, 2003, you wrote:


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Antony Stone [mailto:Antony at SOFT-SOLUTIONS.CO.UK]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 10:53 AM
>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>> Subject: Re: OT: Sendmail {Scanned by HJMS}
>>
>>
>> On Thursday 18 September 2003 4:44 pm, Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>> > Redhat for example backported the fixes, they always do...
>>
>> Shouldn't they still change the version number in some way
>> (eg 8.12.8 ->
>> 8.12.8a or 8.12.8-1) so that sysadmins know whether they've
>> got the new one
>> or the old one on a given machine?

FTG> See rpm -qi sendmail.  They update the release number within the package.
FTG> Latest is 9.90.  That number is appended to the sendmail version number in
FTG> the package filename.  If you are using up2date you probably just aren't
FTG> seeing the release number, but it's definitely there and not difficult to
FTG> find.  It also shows up in a listing of the installed packages:

FTG> # rpm -qa | grep sendmail
FTG> sendmail-cf-8.12.8-9.90
FTG> sendmail-8.12.8-9.90
FTG> sendmail-doc-8.12.8-9.90

Well that answers that.  Although 9.90 is the newest release number
for RH9, The other OS versions have different release numbers.

Im running RH8.0 so mine is 9.80

Thanks again, I'm always surprised how far off topic everyone is willing
to go.  Btw, MailScanner is the best.

Best regards,
Robert B, NTIN                           mailto:pages at ntin.net