From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 13 7:40:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF7537B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:40:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A8E43E97 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:40:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9DEe7ge020004 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:40:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: X-Authentication-Warning: net2.dinoex.sub.org: Host dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182] claimed to be net2.dinoex.sub.org Received: from gate.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@localhost) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) with BSMTP id g9DEe6a6019987 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:40:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Organization: privat Subject: Re: Advice: Upgrading Sendmail on FreeBSD Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:33:24 +0200 X-Mailer: Dinoex 1.79 References: <20021012090620.S15224-100000@floyd.gnulife.org> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT gate.dinoex.sub.org [UNIX/Connect 0.94] X-Accept-Language: de,en X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 16 EC 0A D3 3A 4F 28 8A 8A 47 93 F1 CF 2F 12 X-Noad: Please don't send me ad's by mail. I'm bored by this type of mail. X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2001 by Dirk Meyer -- All rights reserved. X-Note: sending SPAM is a violation of both german and US law and will at least trigger a complaint at your provider's postmaster. X-PGP-Key-Avail: mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net Subject:GET 0x331CDA5D X-No-Archive: yes X-ZC-VIA: 20021013000000S+2@dinoex.sub.org Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jamie schrieb:, > Hi, wasn't sure if this belonged in a Sendmail board or here. I am > running Sendmail 8.11.6 on FreeBSD 4.5. I want to upgrade to 8.12.6. This > is going to be on a production machine so I am a bit nervous about it. > Here are my questions: > > 1) If I install it from ports, will it over-write and replace the original > installation, or is there something special I should do? no, you can switch between the old buildin and the new installation. by changing /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > 2) Would anyone advise that I build it from source in /usr/src instead of > using ports on an upgrade? It's less work to use the port, quicker to update too. > 3) Is there anything else I may want to bear in mind? /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf kind regards Dirk - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message