From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 1 12:52:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B681937B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:52:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70242 invoked by uid 100); 1 Dec 2000 20:52:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14888.3991.163426.571113@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:52:39 -0600 (CST) To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail In-Reply-To: <67015059@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Message: You should get a better mailer. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Farley types: > Today I started tracking FreeBSD-STABLE (from 4.0-RELEASE). After it was > all said an done, my sendmail 8.10.1 installation was trashed, > despite having the NO_SENDMAIL flag set to "true" in /etc/make.conf. What do you mean by "installation was trashed"? I'm willing to believe that a jump from 4.0-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE would involve changes that would make the binary not work. If so, then your problem was seeijnt NO_SENDMAIL in the first place. If, on the other hand, the configuration files in /etc were trashed, that's a different matter. Those are *not* built or installed by buildworld/installworld/world. If you say how you updated the stuff in /etc, we can diagnose the problem, and tell you what you did wrong, or finger the bug that caused the problem so it can be fixed. > I actually had NO_SENDMAIL=3DTRUE in the /etc/make.conf, however my > current theory is that I should have had NO_SENDMAIL=3Dtrue. I assume > make.conf is case sensitive? No, it isn't. Having NO_SENDMAIL set to "true" (in lower case) in /etc/make.conf does exactly what it says it does in /etc/defaults/make.conf - it prevents the building or installing of the sendmail and the associated *programs*. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message