Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:56:39 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Sean Ellis <sellis@telus.net> Cc: Brian <bri@sonicboom.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail upgrade Message-ID: <20010915125639.A26353@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <69419866602.20010914185414@telus.net>; from sellis@telus.net on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 06:54:14PM -0700 References: <00a001c13d86$6e1a1680$3324200a@sonicboom.org> <69419866602.20010914185414@telus.net>
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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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