From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 15 2:57:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF06637B418 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a148.otenet.gr [212.205.215.148]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f8F9v7d01325; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:57:09 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8F9uoK34813; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:56:50 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:56:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Sean Ellis Cc: Brian , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail upgrade Message-ID: <20010915125639.A26353@hades.hell.gr> References: <00a001c13d86$6e1a1680$3324200a@sonicboom.org> <69419866602.20010914185414@telus.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <69419866602.20010914185414@telus.net>; from sellis@telus.net on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:54:14PM -0700 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello Brian, > > I been making some changes with my own sendmail. I thought that the > executable was /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with permissions 4555. As a matter of fact, it is. The _real_ executable of sendmail is in /usr/libexec/sendmail. What you see in /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to mailwrapper. This exists because programs might call sendmail with an absolute path (programs such as pine, mutt, etc). If you install some other MTA instead of Sendmail (qmail for example), you only have to update /etc/mail/mailer.conf to make sure that everyone calls the right MTA when they invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail. It's all explained pretty nicely in the mailwrapper manpage actually :) -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message