Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:16:20 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing sendmail from an installed system Message-ID: <44629dtfbf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <500DE961.2050908@bluerosetech.com> (Darren Pilgrim's message of "Mon, 23 Jul 2012 17:16:33 -0700") References: <500DE961.2050908@bluerosetech.com>
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Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> writes: > I'm removing sendmail entirely from an installed system. I had > WITHOUT_SENDMAIL in /etc/src.conf when I updated to RELENG_8_3, but > that left an old version of sendmail rotting away on disk. This is > the list I have so far: > > /etc/mail/* (excluding mailer.conf) > /etc/rc.d/sendmail > /usr/bin/vacation > /usr/libexec/mail.local > /usr/libexec/sendmail > /usr/libexec/smrsh > /usr/sbin/editmap > /usr/sbin/mailstats > /usr/sbin/makemap > /usr/sbin/praliases > /usr/share/sendmail > /var/spool/clientmqueue > /var/spool/mqueue > > Is this list complete? I'm intentionally leaving the stuff for > mailwrapper. I'm ok with leaving /etc/rc.d/sendmail behind as well, > but it looks like it's not needed by anything (i.e., nothing requires > "mail"). "make delete-old"; see the section "Deleting obsolete files, directories and libraries" in the handbook. > Even though I have WITHOUT_SENDMAIL specified and the world was built > with that, mergemaster still installs /etc/mail/aliases and > /etc/rc.d/sendmail. Is there a way to prevent this other than adding > them to IGNORE_FILES in mergemasterrc? There are other ways, but that's the first one I would think of. Note that neither of these files can be harmful, and might (especially aliases) be used by other MTA.
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