From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Feb 28 8:25:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.ringlet.net (support.nanolink.com [217.75.134.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4A8C37B402 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 76102 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Feb 2002 16:25:42 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:25:42 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: "Crist J. Clark" Cc: Michael Wardle , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/35371: /etc/rc virecover script starts sendmail even if sendmail should be off Message-ID: <20020228182542.G456@straylight.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: "Crist J. Clark" , Michael Wardle , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200202281020.g1SAK2R65822@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020228081811.I66092@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZRyEpB+iJ+qUx0kp" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020228081811.I66092@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cjc@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:18:11AM -0800 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 --ZRyEpB+iJ+qUx0kp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:18:11AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:20:02AM -0800, Michael Wardle wrote: > [snip] >=20 > > 1) shouldn't we test to see if sendmail is installed before calling it? >=20 > sendmail(8) always exists in a standard FreeBSD system. >=20 > > 2) shouldn't it be possible to disable calling "sendmail" (particularly > > if ${sendmail_enable} is NO)? >=20 > Not if you want email to work at all. >=20 > > 3) is there any reason why we shouldn't call "mail" instead of > > "sendmail"? >=20 > mail(1) invokes sendmail(8) too. [snip other answers] I think that Michael made it clear in his reply to my reply to his message that you replied to (ouch! :) that his confusion stemmed mainly from the fact that he was not aware of sendmail(8)'s schizophrenia :P That is, he did not know that sendmail(8) could act as an MUA and/or MSA besides its normal functioning as an MTA. Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence no verb. --ZRyEpB+iJ+qUx0kp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjx+WgYACgkQ7Ri2jRYZRVNrOQCgqmekJ9LdofF3YX9OlI7wOjIB wygAoJHS8q7xGSL3j8dmTNndRBSBb5Jq =V7J9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZRyEpB+iJ+qUx0kp-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message