[BlueOnyx:10065] Re: Conf files replaced by update

[Frank Soyer]

Hi again,

Le 04/04/2012 16:17, Michael Stauber a écrit :
>>> Generally you shouldn't modify your sendmail.cf. Any modification should
>>> go into sendmail.mc, which our updates will never overwrite. So whenever
>>> sendmail.cf is rebuilt from the sendmail.mc during an update, your
>>> changes will be retained.
>> Are you sure ? When I modify the .cf, I need to compile the .mc file as
>> sendmail only know this one.
> Yes, I am sure. The sendmail.cf is compiled from the sendmail.mc, so your
> changes ought to go into sendmail.mc
Sorry to come back to this issue. I was busy last days but I've recheck 
my configuration this morning : in fact I was not upside down... It's 
the sendmail.mc file that I modified, not the .cf, then compiled 
sendmail.cf. So it's really the .mc file, modified, that is overwritten 
by the updates.

If you confirm that this is not a right way for yum to do the updates, 
what can be the reason for it to overwrite this file ? I think that if 
this file is overwritten, no reason for others configuration files to be 
overwritten. And there is always some tweaks on a server !

Thanks.
Frank