From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 27 11:23: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from prserv.net (out1.prserv.net [32.97.166.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18ABA37C3CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 11:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsachs@iclick.com) Received: from iclick.com ([166.72.10.108]) by prserv.net (out1) with SMTP id <2000022719225925202f7io4e>; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:23:00 +0000 Message-ID: <38B97873.F261E40@iclick.com> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:18:11 -0500 From: Jay Sachs Organization: iClick, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Welk Cc: Francisco Reyes , Doug Barton , FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: Does sendmail.cf gets replaced by stable? References: <38B8D751.46D842C6@gorean.org> <200002271333.IAA14157@sanson.reyes.somos.net> <20000227153243.A19813@theatre.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Welk wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 08:38:49PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > Apparently that is not the case. > > As we are on the -stable list, I speak for stable: I did a cvsup yesterday > to and today made buildworld and installworld and my /etc/sendmail.cf > wasn't replaced by one of those procedures and I haven't configured > something special. (And I haven't seen something like that for more than > three years now - I have seen sendmail's barking update cf files that were > to new because I forgot to disable building and installing sendmail during > making the world and I had updated it meanwhile, but no change of the cf > file itself.) > > > According to another email I got builds a sendmail.cf from > > /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc and installs it. > > Maybe, it's something different in -current. It's in stable. sendmail.cf is built, just not installed. Unless you ask mergemaster to do it for you. > > There seems to be a parameter in /etc/rc.conf where one can > > indicate which ".mc" file to use at make world. > > Huh? Sendmail doesn't eat a plain .mc file so it cannot be a runtime > option. Sendmail needs a "compiled" (or hand-written :-) ) cf file. It appears (though I haven't tested it), that defining SENDMAIL_CF in /etc/make.conf controls which .cf gets built, and subsequently installed by mergemaster. Look at /usr/src/etc/sendmail/Makefile. jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message