From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 12 18:40: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AE237BA8D for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:39:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA33254; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:39:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200004130139.VAA33254@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: housley@thehousleys.net Cc: Randy Bush , "Brandon D. Valentine" , FreeBSD Stable , Steve VanDevender X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: sendmail.mc References: <200004130059.UAA92329@thehousleys.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:59:23 -0000." <200004130059.UAA92329@thehousleys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:39:49 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Louis A. Mamakos" said: > > > > > /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc is what you are looking to replace. > > > > > > > > If you don't want future cvsup's to quash your changes you'll want to do > > > > a "chflags schg /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc" after you have copied > > > > the new one into place. > > > > > > yucchhy! [ but thanks ] > > > > > > is the assumption of the one-time build really that acceptable? > > > > > > randy > > > > Yeah, yuk. It would be nice if the Makefile in /etc/mail could do this. > > This might require that the various m4 files be installed somewhere > > so you didn't depend on the source tree being around. > > > > The better/proper way is to copy it to my_sendmail.mc and edit that. Then > set SENDMAIL_CF=my_sendmail.cf in /etc/make.conf. That will then rebuild > my_sendmail.mc to my_sendmail.cf with each buildworld and install world. But do I really need the whole source tree around to build a sendmail.cf file? We expect folks to rebuild other "working files" in /etc/mail now, why not the sendmail.cf file? Perhaps there's a belief that you can have a sufficiently general config file, and customize the various databases it uses. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message