I have Red Hat 9 installed. The sendmail RPM available for RH9 is sendmail-8.12.8-9.90. The latest patch is 8.12.11 which includes a very signifcant security patch at 8.12.10.
I am a little scared of downloading the latest & greatest source and hand compiling it. Sendmail is such a huge beast and there are many options to put things in different places. I'm afraid of having the same file in different places and which leads to the confusion of which file is the "real" one.
I would feel better if I could figure out from the RPM where it installed the various files. That way I could execute the ./configure script and tell it to put the new files in the same places.
I believe I once saw that there is a RPM option(s) that extracts where all the files ended up. But now that I need that information, I can't find it.
Does anyone know how to get RPM to tell me where it put things?
What is your strategy for handling hand building packages ahead of the "official" release from Red Hat?
Patrick "Newbie Linux Admin" Bartkus
Patrick Bartkus, CCNP, CNX, SCM Sr. Network Engineer
GA Dept of Labor IT Network Services
If truth were not absolute, how could there be justice?
I am a little scared of downloading the latest & greatest source and hand compiling it. Sendmail is such a huge beast and there are many options to put things in different places. I'm afraid of having the same file in different places and which leads to the confusion of which file is the "real" one.
I would feel better if I could figure out from the RPM where it installed the various files. That way I could execute the ./configure script and tell it to put the new files in the same places.
I believe I once saw that there is a RPM option(s) that extracts where all the files ended up. But now that I need that information, I can't find it.
Does anyone know how to get RPM to tell me where it put things?
What is your strategy for handling hand building packages ahead of the "official" release from Red Hat?
Patrick "Newbie Linux Admin" Bartkus
Patrick Bartkus, CCNP, CNX, SCM Sr. Network Engineer
GA Dept of Labor IT Network Services
If truth were not absolute, how could there be justice?