Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 09:31:37 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: james@nexis.net (James FitzGibbon) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, james@nexis.net, freebsd-ports@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: port of Majordomo v1.93 Message-ID: <199607121631.JAA00192@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960712102344.14044A-100000@bdd.net> from "James FitzGibbon" at Jul 12, 96 10:29:45 am
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Greetings! > > Yes. I patched all of those to look for it in /usr/local/etc/majordomo.cf > > (just like many of them needed to be patched for the correct location of > > sendmail). I guess this is personal preference... I like to keep /etc > > pretty clean (if I put *everything* that was in /usr/local/etc into > > /etc -- even just a symlink -- the resulting /etc would get quite > > cluttered) > > Ys, an issue of personal pereference. eAt some point one crosses the line > between porting to FreeBSD and making a system configured the way they > think it should be. I might have already gone too far, but changing the > hardcoded locations of files for convenience (as opposed to function, like > sendmail) is going farther still (IMHO). Granted. Though I think you'll find *other* ports/packages have deliberately moved things from /etc to /usr/local/etc ... > > Heh heh heh... there's always one more! ;-) Luckily, my notes for 1.93 > > only take up 7 pages in my journal (the 1.92 notes were probably twice > > that!) > > Yeah, it's certainly not the easiest beast to install, is it ? Thankfully > 1.94a has addressed many of those concerns, but it's still not stabe > enough to port. Maybe a beta or pre-release. I didn't really find it that painful. 1.92 was tougher since I was using Perl5.001 at the time and had to make the tweaks for that. I also had to tweak a few of the scripts to automatically adjust file permissions so I could have digests, archives, etc. appear under ~ftp nicely. As with most things, if you read the directions (carefully), you are rewarded! :> Almanac, on the other hand, is quite a different beast! :-( --don
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