patching sendmail

[David J. Bianco]

I'd like to take a moment to describe my experiences installing the
critical sendmail 8.12.8 patch on our network of 300+ workstations:

        ncftp ftp.sendmail.org
        gpg --verify 
        tar xfvpz
        cd
        sh Build
        cp sendmail /my/cfengine/file/repository
        <wait>

Thanks to cfengine, installing this critical software update everywhere
took me mere minutes.  Of course, the mail servers took longer, but
having cfengine manage the client configurations saved me a couple of
hours.  Thanks, Mark!

        David



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David J. Bianco <bianco@jlab.org>
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility