Updateing Sendmail

[BIS]

Hallo All,

I am running sendmail 8.12.5 on a RH7.3 box. It has come to my attention that there is/are potentially bugs in this release, and I was adviced to upgrade to 8.12.10 / 8.12.11.

My question is how to do that. Just download the rpm packages and the rpm -Uvh sendmail-* ? Will I need to redo the sendmail.cf files? Any thing to consider, be carefull with? Any comments much appreciated.

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Download the latest rpm file. Backup your .cf file just in case. But it wont overwrite them. rpm -Fvh rpm_file. I just receive an email about another bug on sendmail today. So go dl the latest sendmail package.

feroz

 

[BIS]

Yes I think we both received the same email

Thanks for your help.

 

[BIS]

Quick question if I may - do I need all three packages?

sendmail-8.11.6-27.73.i386.rpm
sendmail-cf-8.11.6-27.73.i386.rpm
sendmail-devel-8.11.6-27.73.i386.rpm

If yes do I need to install in any particular order?

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

check you system if you have those package? rpm -qa | grep sendmail. If you do use them, then upgrade is required. No particular order.

feroz

 

[datadan]

BIS,

If you don't want to do RPM try this.

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=14&sfid=4198

 

[BIS]

Hmm, when I do a rpm -Fvh sendmail......rpm nothing seems to happen. Do I need to stop sendmail somehow first before I do this?

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Not really. Try rpm -Uvh filename instead.

feroz

 

[BIS]

Cheers ! Thanks.