On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:30, Robert Locke wrote: > But, I think the importance to the audience in general is that the make > routine is running each time sendmail is started. > > The important thing to me was the idea that if I were to edit > sendmail.cf directly, those changes that I define could be overwritten > when the make routine recreates a new sendmail.cf from the sendmail.mc > file simply by starting the service or rebooting the box.... > > Is that logic sound and of concern to anyone else? ----- possibly but in this particular instance, if you have the knowledge to actually understand and edit sendmail.cf directly, you should be knowledgeable enough to know that this possibility exists. Also note that sendmail.cf would not change if you didn't edit sendmail.mc too. Craig
