Subject: Re: Sendmail Info
From: Arthur Corliss (arthur@corlissfamily.org)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 09:51:02 AKST
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, W.D.McKinney wrote:
>
> Yes but my sys admin spent days pactching enterprise servers running sendmail,
> had 3 days patching over 20 a day. So we really like to se people running sendmail.
No offense, but that's *way* to long. It only took me a few hours to compile
once (per platform), and have a script stop the service, install the new
binaries, regenerate the config (off of a standardised mc file), and restart
the service for all of my boxes. And that's patching from source.
Hell, if you're using vendor patches and you have that many systems, why would
you not use a software deployment product, like Solaris Jumpstart, AIX NIM,
IRIX Roboinst, etc.? Sounds like your admin's time wasn't well spent, and
that's not the fault of sendmail.
In short, you have a software deployment issue, and that will affect *any*
system patches (even alternative SMTP agents). For my money, sendmail is far
too flexible and feature rich to not use, it's maturity makes incidents like
this fairly isolated, and it's prevalent use means I've got more products that
will integrate with it than any other competing product.
--Arthur Corliss
Bolverk's Lair -- http://arthur.corlissfamily.org/
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