From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 28 17:54:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pogo.caustic.org (caustic.org [64.163.147.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E41937B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:54:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by pogo.caustic.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0T1sOU92586; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jan@caustic.org) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:54:24 -0800 (PST) From: "f.johan.beisser" X-X-Sender: jan@localhost To: Drew Tomlinson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserve Postfix When Upgrading? In-Reply-To: <018001c1a863$95c2e110$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> Message-ID: <20020128175228.T79959-100000@localhost> X-Ignore: This statement isn't supposed to be read by you X-TO-THE-FBI-CIA-AND-NSA: HI! HOW YA DOIN? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I would like to upgrade to the 4.5-RELEASE. However, I have installed > Postfix from the ports and want to be sure that Sendmail won't > overwrite Postfix during the upgrade. What do I need to do to keep > Postfix? I've searched the archives but have been unable to find > anything conclusive. dig through /etc/defaults/make.conf. there's an entire section of base install OS bits to not build, and not install. one of them happens to be sendmail. # To avoid building various parts of the base system: [snippage for space] #NO_SENDMAIL= true # do not build sendmail and related programs it just so happens that you can override this quite easily. hope this helps a bit.. -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "John Ashcroft is really just the reanimated corpse of J. Edgar Hoover." -- Tim Triche To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message