topic Upgrade Sendmail in Operating System - Linux

Upgrade Sendmail

Baldeo Prasad_1 — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:59:00 GMT

I am running Redhat Linux 7.0 with kernel 2.2.16-22 on Intel platform.
I would like to upgrade sendmail 8.11.0 which is running on this server to address security vulnerability.
I would like to upgrade sendmail version 8.12.10. It will be great help if anyone help in the steps of upgrading the sendmail.

Thanks in advance

Re: Upgrade Sendmail

Stuart Browne — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:05:46 GMT

I'd probably go with the latest eratta kernel I could find (RH9 8.12.8-9), and use that, by grabbing the src rpm from your favourite redhat mirror, and using 'rpm --rebuild sendmail-8.12.8-9.src.rpm', and installing the resultant RPM's (stored in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/).

Re: Upgrade Sendmail

Baldeo Prasad_1 — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:23:25 GMT

Stuart,
Thanks for your reply but right now I can't afford RH 9.0 upgrade and I only want to upgrade my sendmail.
Could you please advice on steps for upgrading sendmail.

Thanks

Re: Upgrade Sendmail

Stuart Browne — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:25:24 GMT

You don't have to upgrade RH, just use one of it's freely available packages.

All of the SRC RPM's for RH9 are available, and you should be able to re-compile one of them for your RH7 box.

Re: Upgrade Sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:25:57 GMT

I would take the following steps, at a minimum. If you must still use Red Hat 7.x, upgrade to 7.3 and run the up2date utility to get the lastest security fixes and bug fixes in.

That whould allow you to go with the 2.4 kernel, which is stable.

Then as Stuart says the rpm for sendmail 8.12 can be installed, has few if any dependencies and you're all done.

SEP