From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 27 3:23:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bekool.com (ns2.netquick.net [216.48.34.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40685152E1 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 03:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trouble@hackfurby.com) Received: from angelsguardian.netquick.net ([199.72.47.239] helo=hackfurby.com) by bekool.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11VYEi-0009fB-00; Mon, 27 Sep 1999 10:42:25 +0000 Message-ID: <37F0A5C1.D4EE9D7D@hackfurby.com> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:25:53 -0500 From: TrouBle Reply-To: trouble@hackfurby.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3 and egcs References: <58641.938421323@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG very nice.... i did discover the /etc/make.conf switch, but yuou went further with the logs rotation, so now exim is the default MTA... very cool.... Thanks for the help > > This is the only bit I want to answer. :-) > > 1) Install Exim from the ports tree. > > 2) Replace sendmail binaries with a symbolic links to exim: > > cd /usr/sbin && ln -fs /usr/local/sbin/exim sendmail > cd /usr/bin && ln -fs /usr/local/sbin/exim mailq > > 3) Teach newsyslog to rotate your exim logs: > > Add something like this to /etc/newsyslog.conf: > > /var/log/exim_mainlog root:mail 640 7 * 24 Z > /var/log/exim_rejectlog root:mail 640 3 100 * Z > > If you run exim with its own user and group, make sure you get > the ownerships above correct. For example, I use the following: > > /var/log/exim/mainlog exim:mail 640 7 * 24 Z > /var/log/exim/rejectlog exim:mail 640 3 100 * Z > > See the newsyslog(8) manpage for more details. > > 4) Make sure future ``make world'' runs won't activate sendmail: > > echo NO_SENDMAIL=true >>/etc/make.conf > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message