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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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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,
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