From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 12:11:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E00237B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AFF43FDF for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) Received: from net2.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182]) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h25JeDmo000576; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:40:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: net2.dinoex.sub.org: Host dinoex@net2.dinoex.de [212.184.201.182] claimed to be net2.dinoex.sub.org Received: from gate.dinoex.sub.org (dinoex@localhost) by net2.dinoex.sub.org (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) with BSMTP id h25JeC3p000557; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 20:40:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tristan11@mindspring.com (Michelle Weeks) Message-ID: From: dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer) Organization: privat Subject: Re: upgrading sendmail from ports was Re: Sendmail patch questions... Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 20:35:51 +0100 X-Mailer: Dinoex 1.79 References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030304084333.01bcf248@mail.servplex.com> X-Gateway: ZCONNECT gate.dinoex.sub.org [UNIX/Connect 0.94] X-Accept-Language: de,en X-PGP-Fingerprint: 44 16 EC 0A D3 3A 4F 28 8A 8A 47 93 F1 CF 2F 12 X-Noad: Please don't send me ad's by mail. I'm bored by this type of mail. X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2001 by Dirk Meyer -- All rights reserved. X-Note: sending SPAM is a violation of both german and US law and will at least trigger a complaint at your provider's postmaster. X-PGP-Key-Avail: mailto:pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net Subject:GET 0x331CDA5D X-No-Archive: yes X-ZC-VIA: 20030305000000W+1@dinoex.sub.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michelle Weeks wrote: > I would like to upgrade sendmail from the ports collections. However, > I have been using sendmail 8.12.6 from the base install of freebsd > 4.6.2 release and I believe that installing sendmail from the ports > collection will add files to > /usr/local rather then /usr where sendmail is currently located. From > the research I've done after I install sendmail from the ports > collection, I will need to add the following lines to sendmail.mc file: > > define(`confEBINDIR', `/usr/local/libexec')dnl > define(`UUCP_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/local/bin/uux')dnl to get an up-to-date configuration you should add in /etc/make.conf: SENDMAIL_CF_DIR= %%PREFIX%%/share/sendmail/cf before building your cf files $ mv /etc/mail/*.cf /tmp/ $ cd /etc/mail && make > as well as change the mailer.conf file. right the port can update your mailer.cof with: $ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && amke mailer.conf > Am I missing any other steps? Any help would be greatly appreciated > since this is my first attempt at upgrading sendmail. Thats all you need, as you already have a sendmail 8.12.x config. kind regards Dirk - Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany - [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message