Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:59:20 +0300 From: S.N.Grigoriev <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru> To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: sendmail replacement Message-ID: <25891263391160@webmail50.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <4B4DCAC4.70108@quip.cz> References: <661263379937@webmail51.yandex.ru> <4B4DAF41.5090903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <10471263386697@webmail49.yandex.ru> <4B4DCAC4.70108@quip.cz>
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13.01.10, 14:29, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>: > S.N.Grigoriev wrote: > > [...] > > > I thank you for your response. All you wrote is quite right. > > But it is a general rule not to use in the system two sets > > of slightly different programs with duplicating names. It is > > a direct way to have problems. > > > > For example, all third party scripts should be revised to check > > absolute pathes, program search results becomes depending > > of the PATH value, and so on. > > > > It is relatively easy to do such revisions on a small home system. > > But a production server with significant amount of third party software > > will require a lot of time to do that job. > > > > To my mind it will be better to have an options in the port Makefile > > allowing to replace the sendmail files in place. > > I fully understand your doubts, but if you are talking about PATH and > the stuff, sendmail from PATH (/usr/sbin/sendmail) is not a real > sendmail, it is symlink to wrapper using settings from > /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > No application can be confused. > > Miroslav Lachman > > Miroslav, absolute paths may be used not ony to start sendmail program but, for example, to automatically build .mc files from .m4 files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf directory. For port sendmail it becomes /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf -- Regards, S.Grigoriev.
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