From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 27 1: 6:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hal-7.inet.it (hal-7.inet.it [213.92.5.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C7437B406 for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 01:06:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from acampi.inet.it [::ffff:213.92.1.165] by hal-7.inet.it via I-SMTP-4.1.0-410 id 055+b80RBcKVB; Mon, 27 May 10:06:10 2002 +0200 Received: from webcom.it (brian.inet.it [213.92.1.190]) by acampi.inet.it (Postfix) with SMTP id 50CA11552A for ; Mon, 27 May 2002 10:06:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 29662 invoked by uid 1000); 26 May 2002 08:02:41 -0000 Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 10:02:40 +0200 From: Andrea Campi To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 tinderbox failure Message-ID: <20020526080240.GA29609@webcom.it> References: <200205250446.g4P4kxsP095296@ref5.freebsd.org> <20020525063255.B16483807@overcee.wemm.org> <20020525211917.O1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020525211917.O1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-Echelon: BND CIA NSA Mossad KGB MI6 IRA detonator nuclear assault strike Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 09:19:17PM +0200, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 23:32 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Is this the moment where src/usr.bin/perl should be mailwrapper > like? Instead of searching the interpreter in some uncertain > location (and failing) shouldn't the program just believe in > what it was told by the admin? Since the admin should know if > perl is installed and where it lives. And which one to choose > should multiple versions be installed (for whatever reason). IMHO, since the purpose of the wrapper is to preserve POLA, it should try its best without user assistance. If we want to add a configuration file, that's great - but the standard configuration, or no configuration, should make it search the PATH + /usr/local/bin. Bye, Andrea -- 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message