On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:15:08 EDT, Stan Horwitz <[log in to unmask]> said: > On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Walker, Brand wrote: > > >Found it. Sendmail had been retrograded to 8.11.6-27 by a semiautomated > >process. Restoring the 8.12.10 sendmail binary got things going again. > > > >Just thought someone somewhere might someday have a similar conundrum. > > A good habit to get into is to keep all locally installed software out of > the path of the OS. We usually install our stuff in /usr/local so that if > an OS upgrade results in installing outdated versionf of our software, we > still have the stuff we prefer out of harm's way. A good idea in general, but it isn't easy to do for Sendmail because a LOT of code assumes that it lives in the "expected" places. All sorts of things will break in evil and mysterious ways if /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't point to something useful, to the point that I believe both qmail and postfix ship a /usr/sbin/sendmail replacement.