On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Harry Zink wrote: > I tried installing Linuxconf on a production server the other day, with > rather 'bad' results that forced me to deinstall it again - most dealing > with sendmail. > > I noticed that Linuxconf does NOT parse the existing sendmail.cf file, > but rather creates its own, which is in sendmail 8.8.7 format - this is > slightly irksome, particularly if the sendmail being used is a later > version, like 8.9.2. Parsing sendmail.cf is hardly possible. While it is possible to extract the state of few flags easily, making sens of the ruleset very difficult and no system attempt that at all. They all generate a sendmail.cf out of various templates. Seen this way, linuxconf is no different from other tools (if you consider the M4 macro system a tool). When linuxconf did this, it produce (interactivly with a big prompt) a backup of your old sendmail.cf as /etc/sendmail.cf.old (you confirm ?) > I did this mostly in order to gain better configurability over spam > controls, but as it turns out, I ended up losing all of my configurations > (including prior spam controls I had in there, which were no longer > recognized.) > > Another thing that happened is that, for some strange reason, my ethernet > controller was no longer assigned an IP after installing Linuxconf. This is very strange. Linuxconf is fully aware of the redhat config file starting with redhat 5.1 and will happily read the files /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0,1,2,3... > This was on RedHat 5.1, and Linuxconf 1.13r12. Did you install the RPM version ? Which one ? The proper one is from ftp.solucorp.qc.ca/pub/linuxconf/devel/redhat-5.1. The odd thing with the IP number is that linuxconf simply does nothing about that when it installs on a redhat 5.1/5.2 system. I mean, not only it does not have to do anything at install time, ultimatly, it is not involved with activation of this devices (partially true as redhat script are calling linuxconf from underneath to get advices). --------------------------------------------------------- Jacques Gelinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check out Linuxconf at http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf New modules: mgettyconf, managerpm --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
