From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 12:46:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE97037B718 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 12:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f22Kkgi06204; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:46:42 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.11.0/8.11.0av) with ESMTP id f22Kkeo06194; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:46:40 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: earth.wnm.net: alex owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 14:46:40 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Charles Burns Cc: Subject: Re: Several questions that I can't seem to find on answers to on Google In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Charles Burns wrote: > 1) Whenever I boot now, I get the message "recovering vi editor > sessions:sendmail:not found" > I assume that these are two separate messages and that someone just forgot > the \n or something. Anyway, what vi editor sessions? I rarely use vi. > It's just checking for interrupted vi sessions. If you don't use vi, it simply won't find any. > 2) How on earth do I get rid of Sendmail? Whenever I delete sendmail, it > breaks build world. Furthermore, why is it installed by default? It seems to > be deeply imbedded in FreeBSD. I would think that, if anything, FreeBSD > would install Qmail but I would really greatly prefer if I had the option of > not installing any MTA. > I have tried disabling sendmail in rc.conf. > You want an MTA present, if only for your periodic reports and whatever other processes report to root or a user. Accept your fate, you're getting an MTA whether you like it or not. :) Personally, I think it'll be a cold day in hell when FreeBSD includes qmail in the base. Postfix maybe... > 5) Speaking of that, some docs said that IDE devices are always named > wd(xxxxx), but my / is "ad0". Is root an exception? Why? > It was changed from wd to ad in version 4. Some backward compatibility was kept but it won't be there forever. hth -ac -- =================================================================== Alex Charalabidis Worldspice Technologies 5050 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN, USA +1 901 432 6000 Opinions expressed are mine alone but may be yours for a small fee. =================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message