Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:08:51 -0600 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org> Subject: Re: postfix launch at system startup Message-ID: <200411181008.51942.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20041118154656.GC95896@keyslapper.org> References: <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org> <20041118143150.GA3110@tyven.la3sg.net> <20041118154656.GC95896@keyslapper.org>
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On Thursday 18 November 2004 09:46 am, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 11/18/04 03:31 PM, Kjell Midtseter sat at the `puter and typed: > > When I later went through a cvsup/portupgrade sequence, I had to > > answer "YES" to the question > > "Would you like to activate Postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf [n]?" > > If you answer "No" you will revert to sendmail. > > Kjekk > > I answered yes. Always do. > > Lou Answering yes results in changes /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that calls to certain email executables will be mapped to postfix rather than sendmail. I am (fairly) certain that it does _not_ make the necessary changes to ensure that: 1) sendmail is not started at bootup 2) postfix is started at bootup 3) sendmail is not compiled during the next "make buildworld" Andrew Gouldhome | help
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