ok cool... thanks
well i did a 'diff' and the differances were the normal settings for my domain i.e. ip and domain name...
which is obviously why the .cf file created with the upgrade didnt work!
now...i have a new .cf in place from the .mc files which works. does that mean that sendmail is of course patched?
is there a command to tell me exactly what build of sendmail 8.12.8 i'm now running?
the rpm just worked! i got no feedback etc.
G
*UPDATE*
i did a rpm -qa and got the package confirmed correctly...