Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:09:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org> Cc: Rick Hoppe <mailing@rickhoppe.nl>, calvinng@brel.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail broken after upgrade 4.4-RELEASE to 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020215070926.S36782@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20020215144416.GA2806@nomad.thehutt.org>; from jerry@thehutt.org on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:44:16AM -0500 References: <20020214151252.B36782@blossom.cjclark.org> <MLECKHBMGODPBDHNOIAAMEMCCJAA.mailing@rickhoppe.nl> <20020215031108.M36782@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020215144416.GA2806@nomad.thehutt.org>
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On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:44:16AM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 03:11:08AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>
> [snip-snip]
>
> : The ideal way to deal with this is to put your custom sendmail into
> : someplace like /usr/local and then configure mail.conf to point at
> : it. Don't touch anything in /usr/sbin.
>
> Or, an alternative which achieves what the original poster was going for
> is to set both "NO_SENDMAIL" and "NO_MAILWRAPPER" in /etc/make.conf
>
> This will keep sendmail from being built (mostly a time-saving
> procedure), and keep mailwrapper from being built as well (so
> /usr/sbin/sendmail doesn't get trounced).
I still wouldn't put your local sendmail installation in /usr/sbin
"just in case" and just change mail.conf. I would only recommend not
using the wrapper if you have some _very_ creative local setup that
isn't really satisfied by the mailwrapper(8) system.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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