Bug#843658: sendmail-cf: Customized sendmail.cf is being overwritten on startup
On 2016-11-08 16:33, Thomas Auge wrote:
> in a recent development, updates started overwriting sendmail.cf, now it
> seems a rebuild is forced on every startup. It's completely unexpected with
> grave implications. Please do not overwrite modified configuration files
> without asking.
Something that appears prominently at the beginning of sendmail.cf (and
that is not a Debian addition):
######################################################################
#####
##### DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE! Only edit the source .mc file.
#####
######################################################################
(The last time I used sendmail (iirc 8.12) in a production environment
about 15 years ago I hacked around in sendmail.mc and various *.m4
files, and had a sendmail.cf generated out of these, but never edited
sendmail.cf manually)
Andreas
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