Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:13:52 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net> Cc: peter@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rmail Message-ID: <19990702161352.A52135@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <19990702154150.D23322@lucky.net>; from Valentin Nechayev on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM %2B0300 References: <19990702154150.D23322@lucky.net>
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[Redirected to -hackers] On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote: > Why rmail is sitting in /bin, while it is useful only with uuxqt & sendmail? > Historically, I think. NetBSD and OpenBSD install it to /bin as well. > Why it is linked statically? > It is linked dynamically in 3.x and CURRENT as of src/bin/rmail/Makefile,v 1.7 1998/08/04 15:19:16 peter Exp $ # ldd /bin/rmail /bin/rmail: libc.so.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3 (0x28063000) > Is it more right to move it to /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/uucp and link > dynamically? > Personally I think it would make sense. The suggested path (see src/contrib/sendmail/rmail/Makefile.m4) is /usr/sbin. Let's see what Peter thinks. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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