Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:59:13 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "S.N.Grigoriev" <serguey-grigoriev@yandex.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: sendmail replacement Message-ID: <4B4DDFC1.6080101@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <25891263391160@webmail50.yandex.ru> References: <661263379937@webmail51.yandex.ru> <4B4DAF41.5090903@infracaninophile.co.uk> <10471263386697@webmail49.yandex.ru> <4B4DCAC4.70108@quip.cz> <25891263391160@webmail50.yandex.ru>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig54DA89E9F04985BB5FB47811 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable S.N.Grigoriev wrote: >=20 > 13.01.10, 14:29, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>: >=20 >> S.N.Grigoriev wrote: >> =20 >> [...] >> =20 >> > 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 soft= ware >> > will require a lot of time to do that job. >> > >> > To my mind it will be better to have an options in the port Makefil= e >> > allowing to replace the sendmail files in place. >> =20 >> I fully understand your doubts, but if you are talking about PATH and= =20 >> the stuff, sendmail from PATH (/usr/sbin/sendmail) is not a real=20 >> sendmail, it is symlink to wrapper using settings from=20 >> /etc/mail/mailer.conf. >> No application can be confused. >> =20 >> Miroslav Lachman >> =20 >> =20 >=20 > Miroslav, >=20 > absolute paths may be used not ony to start sendmail program but, > for example, to automatically build .mc files from .m4 files in=20 > /usr/share/sendmail/cf directory. For port sendmail it becomes > /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf Unless you set a couple of variables in /etc/make.conf as I described. Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --------------enig54DA89E9F04985BB5FB47811 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAktN38gACgkQ8Mjk52CukIy0sACfcnDA0W6tDeProh6tK0ajq6RK MmgAn0ndZZedXX+Drphj3fZs75sZVpeZ =4Au2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig54DA89E9F04985BB5FB47811--
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