Bug 312081

Summary:	/etc/sendmail.cf overridden -- yikes!
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Scott Doty <scott>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Scott Doty 2007-09-29 01:38:22 UTC

Description of problem:

Application of update to sendmail replaced a customized /etc/sendmail.cf with
the default sendmail.cf, and saved the old version as /etc/sendmail.cf.bak. 
This broke my mail server, it seems like the new sendmail.cf should have been
saved as sendmail.cf.rpmnew

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

8.14.1-4.2

How reproducible:

change /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to (say) allow external connections, and then run
"yum update sendmail" -- tada!  A default sendmail.cf overrides the changes.

Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2007-10-01 14:02:43 UTC

I am sorry, but changes should be made in the sendmail.mc file in /etc/mail.
/etc/sendmail.cf gets automatically overwritten if there is a change in any of
the mc files in /etc/mail.