On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Richard.Hall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Having almost shot myself in the foot again, by applying sendmail patches
Yes, they come as part of patch clusters.
> to a Solaris box running Exim, I decided it was time to sort things out
> properly. The only previous discussion I could find in the archives is at
>
> http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20000904/020731.html
>
> (plus a little bit of follow-up). Basically, the suggestion there is
>
These seem a little excessive to me, but ...
> a) save the bits of sendmail that might be needed
Always good.
> b) delete the SUNWsndmr and SUNWsndmu packages
I don't think you need to do this, see below.
> c) install Exim
> d) link /usr/lib/sendmail to exim
> e) sleep easier at night
All of those are recommended, as is the below advice about
/etc/init.d/sendmail
We were told by sun that these patches are not applied if
sendmail.cf does not exist. This failed once, so I raised
Case id: 36965266
about this asking them to ensure this was the case, or at least to
chech that the sendmail binary was sendmail.
So you can ask what happened.
> I have several questions
>
> 1) is this (still) the best way to achieve this?
> 2) are there any problems with it?
> 3) which bits of sendmail do I need to keep?
>
> Chris Thompson's original answer to (3) was
> - /etc/init.d and /etc/rc?.d scripts (at least as a basis for rolling
ours is in rc2.d/S88sendmail
> ones' own; in fact I think the sendmail ones work surprisingly well for
> Exim :-)
> - /usr/bin/vacation (if needed; in our case probably not)
>
[...]
> Have I missed anything?
Don't think so.
>
> TIA,
> Richard Hall
>
Hugh
