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To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: smail install problems 
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Date: Tue, 03 Sep 1996 15:20:35 -0700
From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.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