From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Oct 8 13:22:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.tgd.net (rand.tgd.net [64.81.67.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 249BD37B408 for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:22:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 34363 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Oct 2001 20:22:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 13:22:11 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/31134: /etc/rc doesn't allow you to specify a different sendmail daemon Message-ID: <20011008132210.A34324@rand.tgd.net> References: <200110081230.f98CU2D82798@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011008184157.A1900@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011008184157.A1900@hades.hell.gr>; from "charon@labs.gr" on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at = 06:41:57PM X-PGP-Key: 0x1EDDFAAD X-PGP-Fingerprint: C665 A17F 9A56 286C 5CFB 1DEA 9F4F 5CEF 1EDD FAAD X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > The sendmail.cf thing might be a real issue, but I've never seen any harm > > > in just leaving it there, and I've never actually removed it :) > > > > I'm confused as to why it'd be an issue to remove the sendmail.cf, but > > I'll have to take your word on it: sendmail hasn't been in my repretoir > > for quite some time. <:~) Thanks. -sc > > Ideally you would be able to just remove the file, but that would > require changes in rc.conf like: > > sendmail_require_cf="YES" > > and code in /etc/rc that only checks for sendmail.cf if the variable > sendmail_require_cf is set to YES. On the other hand, if it really > bugs you to have /etc/mail/sendmail.cf you can create it as an empty > file, and let /etc/rc fall through the existing check. How about I submit a more extensive patch set that checks the source tree and changes /etc/sendmail.cf to use the sendmail_enable variable. I'm not particularly fond of the idea of having program specific stuff hardwired into FreeBSD's boot process. Objections? -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message