From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 12:52:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp010.mail.yahoo.com (smtp010.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 67E9437B409 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:52:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO cheech.uchaswv.edu) (12.4.161.225) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Sep 2001 19:52:23 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:59:23 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd newbies Subject: /etc/defaults/make.conf questions Message-Id: <20010915155923.63fa1563.nmace85@yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org in my /etc/defaults/make.conf there is the following line #NO_MAKEDEV=true does that mean that by default make installworld runs MAKDEV? also there is a line about compiling sendmail or not. my machine DOES NOT need to be running any mail server software, is it safe not to compile it? or does some other stuff depend on it?? also is it like the rc.local files? can i make a "/etc/make.conf" that overrides the one in defaults? thanks nathan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message