From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 2 6:20:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3C214C18; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 06:15:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id QAA59787; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:13:52 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 16:13:52 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Valentin Nechayev Cc: peter@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: rmail Message-ID: <19990702161352.A52135@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Valentin Nechayev , peter@FreeBSD.org, hackers@freebsd.org References: <19990702154150.D23322@lucky.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990702154150.D23322@lucky.net>; from Valentin Nechayev on Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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