Bug 25359

Summary: upgrading to 4.2-RELEASE clobbers mailer.conf
Product: Base System Reporter: trost <trost>
Component: confAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.2-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description trost 2001-02-25 18:30:01 UTC 
	I upgraded to FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE yesterday.  This morning I
	discovered email has been bouncing because sendmail became my
	MTA.

Fix: 

Don't do that.  (-:
How-To-Repeat: 
	Install qmail port. Upgrade to 4.2-RELEASE.
Comment 1 Kris Kennaway freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-03-12 00:00:01 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Probably you lost the sendmail_enable=NO setting in your 
rc.conf file due to the method with which you upgraded. 
Not much that can be done about that from here :-)
Comment 2 Kris Kennaway 2001-03-15 01:50:45 UTC 
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 05:43:57PM -0800, Bill Trost wrote:
> Kris Kennaway writes:
>     If you're clobbering files in /etc when you upgrade,
>     you are going to have problems.  This is why you need to be careful
>     when merging in updates -- mergemaster makes this easy for upgrades
>     when you have the source tree present.
> 
> Why does everyone keep assuming I have the source tree present?  This is
> using the <U>pgrade option on the FreeBSD boot floppies -- the ones you
> build off the CD.  Was my bug report that badly written?
> 
> (Hmm...looking it over, I guess it was...)


Yeah..apparently what you meant to say is "using the upgrade target of
sysinstall doesn't allow you to merge in changes to the mailer.conf
file, but always clobbers it leaving you with a possibly broken
mailer" which would have been a useful bug report to start with :-)

Kris