topic Re: Needing a clean sendmail install in Operating System - HP-UX

Needing a clean sendmail install

Russ Jones_1 — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:15:13 GMT

The company I work for used to be part of a much larger company, but they sold us off. We always got our Ignite images from the main office, and we don't intend to re-Ignite our servers.

But the Ignite image also included our sendmail configuration. The sendmail.cf files that we have are even more screwy than a "normal" sendmail.cf and are tightly coupled with the old company's mail relay servers. Also, our sendmail is release 8.9.3.

I'm wanting to get to 8.13.3 and get away from the old company's configuration. software.hp.com has a depot that will upgrate me to 8.13.3, but it politely leaves the config files alone.

Does anyone know a way to get back to the standard default config files that HP supplies out of the box, either by replacing the existing config and alias files, or by completely installing sendmail from the ground up?

Thanks
Russ

Re: Needing a clean sendmail install

Robert-Jan Goossens — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:09:04 GMT

Hi Russ,

Check the /usr/newconfig/etc/mail directory, there should be a clean sendmail.cf file.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Needing a clean sendmail install

Bill Hassell — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:17:34 GMT

Robert-Jans points out one of the most important directories in HP-UX: /usr/newconfig. It is useful to browse the directory to see the dozens of initial config files (out of the box). sendmail is somewhat special in that it is almost impossible to migrate a modified sendmail.cf to a newer version automatically. Some of this is due to moving options around, adding/deleting options and changing some of the values. S

o the active sendmail.cf file is left untouched and it is up to you to go through your existing file and migrate the changes into the newer version in found in /usr/newconfig. Be sure you make a copy and leave /usr/newconfig/etc/mail/sendmail.cf untouched.