From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 30 10:52:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BCF106568B for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBF088FC08 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id F0E1116B6C2; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:52:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.99]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F07B16B634; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:52:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:42:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:42:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Ian Smith In-Reply-To: <20091030183107.W34366@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Message-ID: <20091030054218.T3638@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <20091029231539.D984C10656EC@hub.freebsd.org> <20091030183107.W34366@sola.nimnet.asn.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Ruben de Groot , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:20 -0000 On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Ian Smith wrote: > > Why does sendmail call up the internet during boot? If it needs to know who > > it is, why can't it look in hosts? > > See the section: WHO AM I? in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README > (assuming you haven't deleted the documentation from your system) Or did not install the src. WHO AM I? doesn't answer the question of how to turn off calling up the internet on every boot. But let's see how far we can get in the README divert(0) Evidently doesn't really matter. VERSIONID(`') Evidently doesn't really matter. OSTYPE(`hpux9')dnl You must specify an OSTYPE to properly configure things such as the pathname of the help and status files, the flags needed for the local mailer, and other important things. If you omit it, you will get an error when you try to build the configuration. Look at the ostype directory for the list of known operating system types. Okay, let's look in ostype directory: freebsd4, freebsd5, freebsd6. But wait! on freshly cvsupped source for 7.2-p4, freebsd7 is not a recognized ostype according to the ostype directory. It says the configuration won't build without. No point in going on from here if my ostype doesn't exist. And it looks like if I could get past here, I'd be back editing the source every time I upgraded the system because for some reason, after all these years, there cannot be a plain English configuration file in /etc such every other service has managed to come up with. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266