Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 05:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/31134: /etc/rc doesn't allow you to specify a different sendmail daemon Message-ID: <200110081230.f98CU2D82798@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/31134; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/31134: /etc/rc doesn't allow you to specify a different sendmail daemon Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 05:29:36 -0700 > > >Description: > > I use the postfix mailer instead of sendmail and would like to continue to > > use sendmail -bd as the way of starting postfix. That said, /etc/rc and > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf need to be updated to include a sendmail_program > > variable. /etc/rc also relies on /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to be present for > > sendmail to be enabled: this is not true for postfix and has been disabled. > > The sendmail.cf part might be a real problem. Specifying the program to run > though is actually done via mailer.conf(5) - this is a greatly thought out > way to ensure that all legacy applications may still invoke sendmail(8), > newaliases(8), mailq and such, while mailwrapper(8) transparently runs > the actual executable of your choice. > > So, just edit the /etc/mail/mailer.conf file and specify the appropriate > program from the Postfix package to run instead of sendmail. Howdy. I've setup my mailer.conf but spaced on realizing it'd be in effect on the system's startup. If mailer.conf takes care of this for me, then groovy and feel free to close this PR. > The sendmail.cf thing might be a real issue, but I've never seen any harm > in just leaving it there, and I've never actually removed it :) I'm confused as to why it'd be an issue to remove the sendmail.cf, but I'll have to take your word on it: sendmail hasn't been in my repretoir for quite some time. <:~) Thanks. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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