On 06/22/2016 05:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 06/22/2016 04:50 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Sendmail's RPM should have used ye ol' ".rpmsave/.rpmnew" mechanism.
> 
> It's possible that it does, but I didn't think to look, or know where to
> find them.  And, as I was making the same changes each time, that
> allowed each update to do whatever it needed, then add in the smarthost
> info myself.  The point is, updates can and do overwrite config files
> and if you've done any customization, you need to be ready to redo it.

They'd be in the normal sendmail config file location, but would be
named "something.m4.rpmsave" or "something.m4.rpmnew".

As I understand it, if the program being updated can still use the old
config file, a ".rpmnew" file would be created containing the RPM's
default config file, but the original won't be disturbed.

If the program being updated can't use the old config file due to some
incompatibility, then the old config file is saved as the ".rpmsave"
version and the RPM's default config file is used instead. The idea
being that you should look at the ".rpmsave" file and make whatever
changes are needed in the new config file to implement what needs to be
done.
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