From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 21 19:21:53 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FCF37B416; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Master.gorean.org (master.gorean.org [10.0.0.2]) by 12-234-22-238.client.attbi.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3M2LkHt057149; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from Master.gorean.org (zoot [127.0.0.1]) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3M2LmLr018311; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by Master.gorean.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3M2Lm2D018308; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Master.gorean.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: doug@master.gorean.org To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/sendmail Makefile rc.sendmail src/share/man/man8 Makefile In-Reply-To: <15555.22109.854746.269569@horsey.gshapiro.net> Message-ID: <20020421191837.W18289-100000@master.gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote: > >> Non-sendmail users use the FreeBSD sendmail startup functionality to start > >> alternative MTAs. Therefore, always install rc.sendmail, regardless of > >> NO_SENDMAIL make.conf setting. Users can still set mta_start_script to a > >> different script. > > grog> Wouldn't this be a good enough reason to rename the file to rc.mail? > > The script is still sendmail specific, checking for things like > /etc/mail/submit.cf and starting submission queue runners. I'd much prefer > to see the ports add different rc scripts then to attempt to make this > script generic enough to satisfy all MTAs. What Greg may be trying to say, and what I certainly agree with, is that it may be better for the project to make a generic rc.mail file than to make an rc.sendmail file. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message