Re: [ILUG] One more reason to detest RedHat...

From: Dave Airlie (david.airlie at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 13 May 1999 - 13:43:56 IST


> So, eejit me came in this morning to a load of "Could not send for 5 days,
> deleting mail" type messages. Damn, I'm pissed off. Thankfully, I only
> would have lost mail I tried to send until five days ago, but still. Had I
> not come into day, or tomorrow & I'd be installing debian or something,
> first thing monday morning.
>
> Do other OSes do it too ? I know Solaris does it, but I expected that...

Nearly all installs of Redhat back as far as 4.0 did it, it's a pain, but
a new sendmail does require new cf's .... really redhat should do a find /
-name "*.rpmorig" at the end of the install and tell you that these config
files have been moved due to the upgrade and to fix the stuff manually ...

Dave.

>
> Kate
>
>

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