Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:26:19 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <14888.6011.299813.84445@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012011454080.2810-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com> References: <14888.3991.163426.571113@guru.mired.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012011454080.2810-100000@kraeusen.nbrewer.com>
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Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> types: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > 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. > > You are correct. The problem is that I set NO_SENDMAIL=true... > > I installed Sendmail 8.10.1 by hand when I installed FreeBSD > 4.0-RELEASE. After I cvsupped new sources and did a make world, I > was running Sendmail 8.9.3! This confused me, as I assumed that > setting NO_SENDMAIL=true would prevent 'make world' from building > or installing Sendmail. I thought I could just build a new sendmail.cf > and get back up to speed, but m4 wanted to build V9 config files, > and Sendmail 8.9.3 only understands V8. The things is, "NO_SENDMAIL=true" *does* prevent sendmail from being built or installed! At least, it does for me (I'm using qmail). My guess is that you installed sendmail 8.10.1 someplace other than where FreeBSD keeps it, and in the process of upgrading to -STABLE, the configuration changes you made so that the system ran 8.10.1 were undone, leaving you running the default system version. Except you didn't make and install a new version, so you got the 8.9.3 from 4.0 instead of the 8.11.x that -STABLE would have put there. You should leave NO_SENDMAIL=true in place, as it will save you the time to build and install sendmail. You can also verify that it's not updated. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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