Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:30:22 -0700 From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail rantlet Message-ID: <200110081830.f98IUNr98300@wattres.Watt.COM> In-Reply-To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG> "Re: Sendmail rantlet" (Oct 8, 10:44)
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On Oct 8, 10:44, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
} Subject: Re: Sendmail rantlet
} steve> I was rather astonished to discover that the installworld had
} steve> overwritten my lovingly crafted `hostname`.mc with a copy of
} steve> freebsd.mc.
}
} I don't see how this could be true (unless mergemaster did something).
[ ... maybe it isn't installworld ... ? ]
} There is nothing there to overwrite a .mc file.
}
} /usr/src/etc/mail/Makefile is not used during installworld. However, even
} if you later did a 'make install' in /etc/mail, `hostname`.mc is only put
} in place if it doesn't already exist:
}
} .ifndef SENDMAIL_MC
} SENDMAIL_MC!= hostname
} SENDMAIL_MC:= ${SENDMAIL_MC}.mc
}
} ${SENDMAIL_MC}: freebsd.mc
} cp freebsd.mc ${SENDMAIL_MC}
} .endif
This is probably it. I don't have SENDMAIL_MC defined because of the
warning in the sendmail Makefile that says:
# Local SENDMAIL_MC or SENDMAIL_CF may be set in /etc/make.conf.
# Warning! If set, this causes 'make install' to always copy it
# over /etc/mail/sendmail.cf!!!
# Caveat emptor! Be sure you want this before you enable it.
Since SENDMAIL_MC is not defined, it copies freebsd.mc over it.
I think that's the problem, right there. The copy should only
be done if `hostname`.mc doesn't exist, not if SENDMAIL_MC isn't
defined... at least in my opinion.
Thanks for the info, though.
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