Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:37:16 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/sendmail Makefile rc.sendmail src/share/man/man8 Makefile Message-ID: <15555.30556.794156.143377@horsey.gshapiro.net> In-Reply-To: <20020421191837.W18289-100000@master.gorean.org> References: <15555.22109.854746.269569@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020421191837.W18289-100000@master.gorean.org>
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DougB> What Greg may be trying to say, and what I certainly agree with,
DougB> is that it may be better for the project to make a generic rc.mail file
DougB> than to make an rc.sendmail file.
The whole reason rc.sendmail was created via the extract of the sendmail
startup code from /etc/rc was because different MTAs have unique
requirements. True, some users have decided to use special rc.conf
settings to fool the sendmail startup code into starting other MTAs[1] but
the point of $mta_start_script and rc.sendmail is to stop this sort of
thing. It is my opinion that creating a generic rc.mail would put us all
the way back where things were weeks ago when people were complaining about
the changes to start sendmail.
[1] People can do all sorts of things to pervert /etc/rc, such as setting
an used service to their daemon, e.g.:
natd_enable="yes"
natd_program="/usr/local/sbin/mymta"
natd_flags"-daemon"
It doesn't make it right just because it works.
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