From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 00:22:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D17106564A for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:22:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6578FC0C for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:22:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 29914 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2010 00:22:05 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Apr 2010 00:22:04 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDED5083E for ; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:21:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id C022E1CCC9; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 20:21:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4BBC3343.8070703@a1poweruser.com> <20100407093536.cab35b04.freebsd@edvax.de> <4BBC4CA9.6090807@a1poweruser.com> <44zl1fl56x.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <4BBD0FF3.9070706@a1poweruser.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:21:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4BBD0FF3.9070706@a1poweruser.com> (fbsd1@a1poweruser.com's message of "Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:06:27 +0800") Message-ID: <44ochu3iai.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: usage of /usr/bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:22:06 -0000 Fbsd1 writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Fbsd1 writes: >> >>> But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. >> >> By default, it does not. You have to enable the "Install into /usr and >> /etc/postfix" configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend >> that anyone do it without a *really* good reason. Turn that option back >> off and you'll be fine. >> >> > Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it > self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Believe it or not, I checked before responding, so I'm *not* wrong. I said that the port populates into /usr/local like it should, and having it on several machines for nearly a decade now, I knew that to be the case. You then changed that to refer to a package rather than a port; I don't know where you got your packages from, but I checked the packages for 8-STABLE and for 8.0-RELEASE, and saw that they install into /usr/local as well. So it sounds like your packages didn't come from the FreeBSD project, if they are really installing anything into /usr/bin. Just as a sanity check: what, specifically, is installed into /usr/bin on your system? Most of the postfix executables go into sbin rather than bin anyway, so it's possible that something in the mailwrapper system is confusing you. If you don't have a /usr/local/sbin/postfix, but have a /usr/sbin/postfix instead, then this is not the case. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/