From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 15 7: 9:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F51837B404 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:09:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020215150927.YAEI2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:09:27 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FF9Qo40056; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:09:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 07:09:26 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jerry A! Cc: Rick Hoppe , 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> References: <20020214151252.B36782@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020215031108.M36782@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020215144416.GA2806@nomad.thehutt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020215144416.GA2806@nomad.thehutt.org>; from jerry@thehutt.org on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:44:16AM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message