From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 13 13:59:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAB0106566B for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:59:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru) Received: from forward11.mail.yandex.net (forward11.mail.yandex.net [95.108.130.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E18F8FC18 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:59:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from webmail50.yandex.ru (webmail50.yandex.ru [77.88.32.223]) by forward11.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id CDFE7F48899; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:59:20 +0300 (MSK) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by webmail50.yandex.ru (Yandex) with ESMTP id 872E3FB0642; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:59:20 +0300 (MSK) X-Yandex-Spam: 1 X-Yandex-Front: webmail50 X-Yandex-TimeMark: 1263391160 Received: from netman.spbcity.net (netman.spbcity.net [77.244.18.5]) by mail.yandex.ru with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:59:19 +0300 From: S.N.Grigoriev To: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <25891263391160@webmail50.yandex.ru> Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:59:20 +0300 X-Mailer: Yamail [ http://yandex.ru ] 5.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: sendmail replacement X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:59:22 -0000 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.