Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 06:01:25 +0100 From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, osilva@scuff.cc.utexas.edu (Oscar Ricardo Silva) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:04.sendmail Message-ID: <NYXlpz4hZ6@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org> References: <200303031711.h23HBbVf059406@freefall.freebsd.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20030303155440.01a87a80@scuff.cc.utexas.edu>
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Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Anybody know how we should approach this for older versions of FreeBSD? Is > upgrading source and rebuilding the only way? I was wondering if there > were binary versions or patches for older versions so we don't have > upgrade, rebuild and reboot. you can use the ports version anytime: /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-old will install 8.11.6 /usr/ports/mail/sendmail will install 8.12.8 1) If you don't have mailer.conf, it will overwrite the base files. else everything is installed at /usr/local/ Then activate the ports binaries in /usr/local/ by: $ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make mailer.conf 2) sendmail can work with some older configurations files. but you should update the config: Add to /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR=/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf an rebuild your cf files. $ cd /etc/mail $ rm -f *.cf $ make 3) last step is to restart sendmail $ cd /etc/mail $ make stop $ make start if you update make, sendmail runs even on 2.2.8 besides that you don't have the nice Makefile in /etc/mail 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-questions" in the body of the message
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