From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 1 20:26:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A47AE37B66D for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id e923QDf72239; Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:26:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14808.85.608.911665@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 20:26:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: Sergei Vyshenski Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: typo in etrn.pl of sendmail kit In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000929120332.00aa8970@vivaldi> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000929120332.00aa8970@vivaldi> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.2 (beta35) "Nike" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG svysh> FreeBSD-4.1.1 distribution has a useful script meant for svysh> enforced fetch of mail from secondary mx-servers: svysh> /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/contrib/etrn.pl svysh> It begins with a line "#!/usr/local/bin/perl", svysh> while default location of perl here seems to be /usr/bin/perl. svysh> Without correcting it, script just says: "Cannot find file", svysh> which may be not a transparent guideline for what to do. That file (in the src/contrib) area is a direct import of the sendmail sources. It's not meant to be a binary directory for users to run things out of. As has been mentioned by others, the best solution is to make a symlink in /usr/local/bin. I've found that many scripts assume that path for perl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message