From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 4 7:50:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4924737B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (ei.xs4all.nl [213.84.67.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3645743E9C for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 07:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fbsd-q@bzerk.org) Received: from ei.bzerk.org (BOFH@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB4FpHsS023437; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:51:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from stable@ei.bzerk.org) Received: (from stable@localhost) by ei.bzerk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB4FpHUx023436; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:51:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:51:17 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot To: Michael Sierchio Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR 37395 - even with NO_SENDMAIL=true, /usr/sbin/sendmail overwritten Message-ID: <20021204155117.GA23399@ei.bzerk.org> References: <3DEE1F18.8080105@tenebras.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DEE1F18.8080105@tenebras.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:28:24AM -0800, Michael Sierchio typed: > > What's the deal with this? This puppy broke a couple of my > machines by overwriting /var/qmail/bin/sendmail via the > symlink in /usr/sbin. Ack. Pppt. /usr/sbin/sendmail should be a symlink to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. You can use mailer.conf(5) to point to your MTA. Example /etc/mail/mailer.conf: sendmail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail mailq /var/qmail/bin/sendmail newaliases /var/qmail/bin/sendmail > There should be a single switch to disable sendwhale. > > I'll reiterate that the make.conf switches are no substitute > for packagizing the ever-more-bloated "base" system. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message