From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 15 15:26:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5907237B408 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 15:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b106.otenet.gr [195.167.121.234]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8FMPcd26828; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:25:43 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8FMPCr15539; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:25:12 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:25:11 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Nathan Mace Cc: freebsd newbies Subject: Re: /etc/defaults/make.conf questions Message-ID: <20010916012511.A14930@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010915155923.63fa1563.nmace85@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010915155923.63fa1563.nmace85@yahoo.com>; from nmace85@yahoo.com on Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 03:59:23PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html 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 Nathan Mace wrote: > > 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?? No, it's not dangerous in any sense to use make.conf to disable those parts of the base system that you will not be using. In fact it's a ``great idea''. > also is it like the rc.local files? > can i make a "/etc/make.conf" that overrides the one in defaults? thanks Questions like this one will be (hopefully) answered in more detail, if you skim through the manpage: % make make.conf BTW, questions like these are better sent to -questions. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message