[cobalt-users] Sendmail Update, Empty Tables --- Urgent

[mdj1@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi All,

I was having the same problems with the sendmail updates 16402 with the RPM
package and found the following information.

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Paul,

I had the same problem! I had installed the RaQ4-Sendmail-8.10.2-PM1.pkg
from Pkgmaster. I uninstalled this package before I installed
RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-16402.pkg. But it seems that the pkgmaster package
does not uninstall completely. Obviously, there is a conflict for the
sendmail.cf. After the (incomplete) installation of the patch, rpm shows
the following results:

[root RPMS]# rpm -qf /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C1
sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3
sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3

I saved the /etc/mail directory and uninstalled the two packages:

[root RPMS]# rpm -e sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C1
[root RPMS]# rpm -e --allmatches sendmail-conf-8.10.2-C3

(The second uninstall was necessary at least for my system because I had
two instances of C3 due to a second try to install the patch! :-))

This removed some files from /etc/mail which I restored from the copied
directory. Afterwards I could install successfully the new patch!

Hope that helps!
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I have now installed the patches, but when i go to the mail settings in the
control panel all the fields are empty, how do i go about restoring these.

I have a backup of the /etc/mail directory from before the changes performed
above. Does it have something to do with the virtualusertable files?

Please any immediate help would be much appreciated.

Regards.

Mark Priest