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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S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
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> 13.01.10, 14:29, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd@quip.cz>:
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>> 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
Unless you set a couple of variables in /etc/make.conf as I described.
Matthew
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