From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 28 2:20: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4E137B400 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:20:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1SAK2R65822; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:20:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200202281020.g1SAK2R65822@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Michael Wardle Subject: Re: conf/35371: /etc/rc virecover script starts sendmail even if sendmail should be off Reply-To: Michael Wardle Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/35371; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Michael Wardle To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: conf/35371: /etc/rc virecover script starts sendmail even if sendmail should be off Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 02:18:51 -0800 (PST) 1) shouldn't we test to see if sendmail is installed before calling it? 2) shouldn't it be possible to disable calling "sendmail" (particularly if ${sendmail_enable} is NO)? 3) is there any reason why we shouldn't call "mail" instead of "sendmail"? (admittedly, i don't know too much about these utilities, but I thought it would be preferred to invoke a MUA rather than an MTA if all we wanted to do was send a message) 4) if we're going to call an MTA rather than an MUA, shouldn't we at least test whether it's already running (i don't think it's correct to invoke what seems to be a system utility (usually invoked as a daemon) from a shell script in this way -- i could be wrong) 5) shouldn't we call whatever MTA the user has configured (e.g. sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail)? I'd really like to be able to disable the behavior I mentioned in the original report. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - Send FREE e-cards for every occasion! http://greetings.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message