Subject: Re: sendmail install from build.sh - no submit.cf
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se>
List: current-users
Date: 04/01/2003 01:08:38
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, George Michaelson wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:30:12 -0500 Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
> 
> > >I did (cd /usr/src; ./build.sh -E build) and have a foonly fine system of
> > >current, but I notice that my sendmail borked at boot, complaining that the
> > >/etc/mail/sendmail.cf was for v9.
> > 
> > did you try /etc/postinstall after you were done building?  that
> > always helps a lot.
> 
> doesn't build do that for you? doesn't etcupdate do that for you?

build runs postinstall check for you.
etcupdate runs postinstall check for you.

> (shrug) no I didn't do /etc/postinstall. Ok. rate me clueless, but when did
> that make it into the *documented* "you should do this" phase of a build.sh
> run? Cos I got pointed at etcupdate, and run that believing 'it fixes things'

Well, if you ran build.sh, it should have run postinstall for you, and you
said you ran etcupdate, which I *know* runs postinstall. So yes, you did
run postinstall. :-)

	Johnny

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