Bug 296751 - sendmail update deletes /etc/aliases.db
Summary: sendmail update deletes /etc/aliases.db
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sendmail
Version: 7
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Thomas Woerner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-19 18:21 UTC by W.C. Martin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-24 14:22:59 UTC
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Description W.C. Martin 2007-09-19 18:21:48 UTC 
Description of problem:
The recent RPM update to sendmail on Fedora 7 resulted in removal of the
/etc/aliases file even though it was being used by postfix.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sendmail-8.14.1-4.2.fc7.i386

How reproducible:
sendmail was installed, but not running.  Instead, postfix had been installed
and made active by using system-switch-mail.

Previous yum updates had been done on September 15, 2007.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install f7 with updates to 2007-09-15
2. install postfix and run system-switch-mail to make it active
3. run newaliases
4. install sendmail update as of 2007-09-19

  
Actual results:
/etc/aliases.db disappears

Expected results:
leave /etc/aliases.db alone

Additional info:
May be related to bug id 223637?
Comment 1 Thomas Woerner 2007-09-24 14:22:59 UTC 
This was a problem in the old sendmail package and has been fixed in the the new
one.
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