Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:44:48 +0100 From: "Johan Hendriks" <Johan@double-l.nl> To: "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: NO_ knobs in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB19C08B@w2003s01.double-l.local> References: <47949811.1080505@raad.tartu.ee>
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>Hello! >In earlier releases, /etc/make.conf had various NO_ knobs such as=20 >NO_SENDMAIL or NO_IPFILTER to avoid building specific parts of the system=20 >during buildworld. In FreeBSD 7 they seem to be gone? At least they are not=20 >listed in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, or make.conf(5). I'm=20 >specifically curious about NO_SENDMAIL. With earlier FreeBSD versions I >added this to make.conf after installing Postfix, thinking that this way=20 >installworld won't overwrite my Postfix port. Is this no longer necessary? >--=20 >Toomas Aas Secondly=20 Even if you do not set WITHOUT_SENDMAIL it will never overwrite your postfix install. Sendmail is build within the base system and there for is installed in /bin and /sbin and postfix Will be build within /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin with the file /etc/mailer.conf you can=20 point to another mailer like postfix, exin ot qmail. Regards, Johan Hendriks Double L Automatisering =20
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