On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:19, Jonathan T. Steadman wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:37, Craig White wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:38, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 21:51, Mike Chambers wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 14:34 -0500, Steven Stern wrote: > > > > > > > > > After making the change, while still in /etc/mail, type > > > > > > > > > > make -C /etc/mail > > > > > > > > > > When that finishes > > > > > > > > > > /sbin/service sendmail restart > > > > > > > > Actually, just the above command is all you need to do, not both. > > > > service command will take care of the make -c stuff automatically. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mike Chambers > > > > > > > > > Mike, > > > > > > Exactly where in the code for the service command does it call the make > > > command?? > > > > > > I looked through that code and I see nowhere that it does anything other > > > than call the init script to manage the services. And I KNOW that > > > /etc/init.d/sendmail does not call a make command itself. > > > > > > Unless you can point to the exact portion of code that does this I will > > > continue to believe that I must do the "make -C /etc/sendmail" command > > > myself and will recommend to others that they do the same. > > --- > > cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail > > > > you are looking too deep. > > > > Craig > > > I guess it doesn't matter to much, my problem was solved, and if the > only consequence was that I might have to type the extra 15 characters > apprx.(make -C /etc/mail) to do the same thing, it was O.K. by me saved > me much grief, in trying to guess blindly about how to accomplish what I > wanted accomplished. So anyways Thanks again to all who helped out on > this one, I am running dovecot/sendmail and am happy all is well ;). > 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? --Rob
