From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 21 19:37:22 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (horsey.gshapiro.net [209.220.147.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9716D37B404; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horsey.gshapiro.net (gshapiro@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3M2bHOE026037 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gshapiro@localhost) by horsey.gshapiro.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3M2bG74026034; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:37:16 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15555.30556.794156.143377@horsey.gshapiro.net> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:37:16 -0700 From: Gregory Neil Shapiro To: Doug Barton 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: <20020421191837.W18289-100000@master.gorean.org> References: <15555.22109.854746.269569@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20020421191837.W18289-100000@master.gorean.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.00 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message