Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 11:16:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail upgrade Message-ID: <20010915111521.B766-100000@cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010915125639.A26353@hades.hell.gr>
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Figured out the below, now what I get is a banner showing 8.11.6/8.11.3 ?? I t all seems to work. Brian "Sonic" Whalen Success = Preparation + Opportunity On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net> wrote: > > Hello Brian, > > > > I been making some changes with my own sendmail. I thought that the > > executable was /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with permissions 4555. > > As a matter of fact, it is. > The _real_ executable of sendmail is in /usr/libexec/sendmail. > > What you see in /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to mailwrapper. > This exists because programs might call sendmail with an absolute path > (programs such as pine, mutt, etc). > > If you install some other MTA instead of Sendmail (qmail for example), > you only have to update /etc/mail/mailer.conf to make sure that everyone calls > the right MTA when they invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail. It's all explained pretty > nicely in the mailwrapper manpage actually :) > > -giorgos > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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