serving pop3

[Robert Locke]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 23:19, Jonathan T. Steadman wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:37, Craig White wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 14:38, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 21:51, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 14:34 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > After making the change, while still in /etc/mail, type
> > > > > 
> > > > >   make -C /etc/mail
> > > > > 
> > > > > When that finishes
> > > > > 
> > > > >   /sbin/service sendmail restart
> > > > 
> > > > Actually, just the above command is all you need to do, not both.
> > > > service command will take care of the make -c stuff automatically.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Mike Chambers
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Mike,
> > > 
> > > Exactly where in the code for the service command does it call the make
> > > command??
> > > 
> > > I looked through that code and I see nowhere that it does anything other
> > > than call the init script to manage the services.  And I KNOW that
> > > /etc/init.d/sendmail does not call a make command itself.
> > > 
> > > Unless you can point to the exact portion of code that does this I will
> > > continue to believe that I must do the "make -C /etc/sendmail" command
> > > myself and will recommend to others that they do the same.
> > ---
> > cat /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
> > 
> > you are looking too deep.
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> I guess it doesn't matter to much, my problem was solved, and if the
> only consequence was that I might have to type the extra 15 characters
> apprx.(make -C /etc/mail) to do the same thing, it was O.K. by me saved
> me much grief, in trying to guess blindly about how to accomplish what I
> wanted accomplished.  So anyways Thanks again to all who helped out on
> this one, I am running dovecot/sendmail and am happy all is well ;).
> 
But, I think the importance to the audience in general is that the make
routine is running each time sendmail is started.

The important thing to me was the idea that if I were to edit
sendmail.cf directly, those changes that I define could be overwritten
when the make routine recreates a new sendmail.cf from the sendmail.mc
file simply by starting the service or rebooting the box....

Is that logic sound and of concern to anyone else?

--Rob