Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-06 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
Our sysadmin installed a bunch of patches on our Solaris machines today - basically, he just got a cluster of recommended patches and installed them all. Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail (was a symlink to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, became a "real" sendmail). But not o

Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-08 Thread Giles Lean
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:35:51 +0200 Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail I make my startup scripts remove /usr/lib/sendmail and re-create the symlink that I want, just in case. The introduction of a new startup file is harder to deal with,

Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-10 Thread Harald Hanche-Olsen
+ Giles Lean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | On Thu, 07 Oct 1999 00:35:51 +0200 Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | | > Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail | | I make my startup scripts remove /usr/lib/sendmail and re-create the | symlink that I want, just in case. Good idea! Now,

Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-10-10 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
* Harald Hanche-Olsen (Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:35:51AM +0200) > Our sysadmin installed a bunch of patches on our Solaris machines > today - basically, he just got a cluster of recommended patches and > installed them all. > > Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail (was a

Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

1999-11-16 Thread D. J. Bernstein
Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail (was a > symlink to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, became a "real" sendmail). /etc/mta was designed to solve this problem: http://cr.yp.to/etc-mta.html The standard qmail 2 installation will support /etc/m