[BlueOnyx:10066] Re: Conf files replaced by update

[Roy Urick]

I'm with Frank.  I too can confirm the .mc file gets overwritten for seemingly no good reason. I have several tweaks in my file that when replaced causes mail to stop flowing In my environment. It's quite frustrating to one day discover my mail server is "broken" and I have to go in and re-apply my config file changes. 

On Apr 6, 2012, at 3:39 AM, Frank Soyer <fsoyer at systea.net> wrote:

> 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
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