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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:09:41 -0400
From:      stan <stanb@panix.com>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports List <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sendmail from porst vs vase sendmail (problems)
Message-ID:  <20050902000941.GA23552@teddy.fas.com>
In-Reply-To: <A7BC8171-4977-4D43-B213-E8F0937A37C2@orthanc.ca>
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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:45:37PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> 
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:16 AM, stan wrote:
> 
> >
> >OK. I'll be more specifc. How do I get the sendmail that's distributed
> >with the base system, and all the requisite dirctories, such as
> >/var/spool/mail, rebuilt as they would have been right after the  
> >install?
> 
> The simplest way would be:
> 
>     rm -rf /var/spool/mqueue /var/spool/mail /etc/mail
>     cd /usr/src
>     make buildworld && make installworld

Isn't that a bit extereme? Espically as it will probably overwrite
all teh perl modules, and binaries we have installed from ports.

There must be a way to build just a subsection of the main tree, no?


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