Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 00:11:25 -0400 From: aecolley@world.std.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: conf/6284: Can't disable sendmail in favour of exim Message-ID: <E0yOaab-0000ul-00.fnord@alembic.isegoria.com>
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>Number: 6284
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: Can't disable sendmail in favour of exim
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 12 21:20:02 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Adrian Colley
>Organization:
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Environment:
Exim: I've installed the mail/exim port and
overwritten
/usr/sbin/{sendmail,purgestat} and
/usr/bin/{mailq,hoststat,newaliases} with symlinks
to /usr/local/sbin/exim.
DNS: The machine name is `alembic.isegoria.com', which
isn't yet registered.
Mail: Exim is configured to recognise `isegoria.com' as
local; fetchmail is used to grab mail from
aecolley@world.std.com and redirect it to
aecolley@isegoria.com via localhost. (Works fine.)
>Description:
I cvsupped and made world and rebooted. After a few
hours, I discovered that sendmail (the real sendmail)
was running. Duh; I forgot to nuke it again after
the make world, so my symlinks to exim had been replaced
by a newly-compiled sendmail.
Of course, sendmail isn't configured to know about
isegoria.com. It is, however, smart enough to know how to
send bounce messages and drop all other mail. </rant>
An option, NO_SENDMAIL, in /etc/make.conf is probably
in order. Patch file attached. Please to commit.
Thank you.
Some related comments:
/etc/rc starts /usr/sbin/sendmail by name instead of
making it an rc.conf-variable
Too many mail-sending things have "sendmail" hardcoded
in them (such as, er, send-pr), so the symlink is
necessary.
I removed /etc/sendmail.cf, but of course it's another
thing installed by make world, so it will be back.
Please accept my apologies-in-advance if I've sorely
abused send-pr or any of its fields.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install something to replace sendmail; configure it;
make world; reboot. Watch sendmail come back to life
like a nethack troll. Sendmail bites. Sendmail bites!
Your scrolls of mail crumble to dust. --More--
>Fix:
Patch generated with CVSROOT=/home/ncvs cvs diff -u \
src/etc/make.conf src/usr.sbin/Makefile :
Index: src/etc/make.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/make.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.37.2.13
diff -u -r1.37.2.13 make.conf
--- make.conf 1998/04/01 21:09:31 1.37.2.13
+++ make.conf 1998/04/13 03:18:57
@@ -187,3 +187,9 @@
# /etc/passwd. The default number is 20011.
#
#TOP_TABLE_SIZE= 101
+
+#
+# If you use an alternative mailer such as qmail or exim, you may want
+# to define this to avoid compiling and installing sendmail.
+#NO_SENDMAIL= true
+
Index: src/usr.sbin/Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.98.2.7
diff -u -r1.98.2.7 Makefile
--- Makefile 1998/01/21 06:03:59 1.98.2.7
+++ Makefile 1998/04/13 02:57:38
@@ -9,10 +9,14 @@
newsyslog nslookup pccard pciconf pcvt pkg_install pnpinfo portmap \
ppp pppctl pppd pppstats pstat pw pwd_mkdb quot quotaon rarpd \
repquota rmt rndcontrol rpc.lockd rpc.statd rpc.yppasswdd rpc.ypxfrd \
- rwhod sa sendmail sliplogin slstat \
+ rwhod sa sliplogin slstat \
spray sysctl syslogd tcpdump timed traceroute trpt tzsetup vipw \
vnconfig watch wlconfig wormcontrol xntpd xten ypbind yp_mkdb \
yppoll yppush ypset ypserv zic
+
+.if !defined(NO_SENDMAIL)
+SUBDIR+= sendmail
+.endif
SUBDIR+=IPXrouted
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