Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:20:35 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Tom Torrance <tom@tomqnx.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smail install problems Message-ID: <m0uy3pj-0003xQC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Aug 1996 10:09:29 -0700." <Pine.NEB.3.94.960831100719.2623A-100000@misery.sdf.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960831100719.2623A-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> wrote:
> I wouln't want to see the Smail port remove or move system binaries. A
> small note on making symlinks for sendmail/rmail/mailq should be
> sufficient.
Possibly along with providing a script that can be used to do the symlinks.
Locally, I've got a script that I use to setup a newly acquired system. A
[hand-edited to remove some localisms] copy of it is appended to this message.
The basic upshot is that a new system gets a /usr/adm/smail/ tree copied to
it, then the install.smail script backs up the previous versions of some files
and installs symlinks to the smail equivalents in their place. (No, it is not
a drop-in solution for a FreeBSD smail port, but it might provide thought
fodder).
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div)
1700 Westlake Ave N #500
scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109
Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org
---- Excerpt from my 'install.smail' script:
#! /bin/sh
dbg=
smailbin=/usr/adm/smail/bin export smailbin
cd $smailbin
for f in * sendmail rmail
do
for d in /bin /usr/bin /usr/lib /usr/sbin
do
if [ -f $d/$f ]; then
n=1
while [ -f $d/$f.orig.$n ]; do
n=`expr $n + 1`
done
if $dbg mv $d/$f $d/$f.orig.$n; then
[ "X$dbg" = X ] && echo $d/$f saved to $d/$f.orig.$n
else
echo "couldn't save $d/$f to .orig.$n" >&2 && exit 1
fi
fi
done
done
# $dbg ln -s $smailbin/* /usr/bin/
(cd $smailbin; find . \( -type l -o -type f \) \! -name '*.O' -print) |
sed -e "s,^\.,$smailbin," |
xargs -t -i ln -s '{}' /usr/bin/
echo ln -s $smailbin/smail /bin/rmail &&
$dbg ln -s $smailbin/smail /bin/rmail
echo ln -s $smailbin/smail /usr/lib/sendmail &&
$dbg ln -s $smailbin/smail /usr/lib/sendmail
echo ln -s $smailbin/smail /usr/sbin/sendmail &&
$dbg ln -s $smailbin/smail /usr/sbin/sendmail
[ -r /usr/spool/smail ] || mkdir /usr/spool/smail
[ -r /usr/spool/smail/lib ] || mkdir /usr/spool/smail/lib
if [ -f /usr/adm/smail/lib/maps/mkpath.conf ]; then
/usr/adm/smail/util/mkpath
fi
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