Sendmail patch

Hello.The 122857-04 patch unconditionally overwrote my /etc/mail/sendmail.cf config.Is this normal behavior ?M.C>
[144 byte] By [mcerveny] at [2007-11-26 10:48:04]
# 1

This is a question about a particular patch rather than a question or issue relating to the actual patching tools (Sun UC, Patch Manager, PatchPro) so we are limited as to how much we can help here.

However from what we can tell this would appear to be perfectly normal behaviour as the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file isn't a file which is meant to be edited anyway according to the file itself.

Hope this helps, but if you need more help perhaps the OS forum will be more appropriate.

ForumModerator at 2007-7-7 3:00:24 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 2

Hello,

> However from what we can tell this would appear to be

> perfectly normal behaviour as the

> /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file isn't a file which is

> meant to be edited anyway according to the file

> itself.

The sendmail.cf file is main configuration file for sendmail.

The file is not directly edited but rather generated from *.mc files

(/etc/mail/cf/cf/*.mc). I use my own xyz.mc file to generate my own sendmail.cf file.

I think it is patch process bug to overwrite any config file of any kind.

Do your patches overwrite files such as sshd_config, http.conf ... (I think not) ?

M.C>

mcerveny at 2007-7-7 3:00:24 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...
# 3
In that case I agree that it is bad patch behaviour. However as mentioned you will need to report this on one of the Solaris forums as the patch would have been created by the Solaris group. http://forum.sun.com/jive/index.jspa?tab=solaris
ForumModerator at 2007-7-7 3:00:24 > top of Java-index,Administration Tools,Sun Update Connection-System...