Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 09:53:33 +0200 From: "Marius Vincent" <mvincent@elcb.co.za> To: "Alexander Werner Skwar" <askwar@DigitalProjects.com> Cc: "freeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Installing exim and removing sendmail Message-ID: <NEBBJNFFELDAHIBIGIAMCEFLCBAA.mvincent@elcb.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20000428085231.F8007@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com>
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Alex I am running Exim 3.12 on a FreeBSD 3.4 box. The three conf changes I did is. I disabled sendmail (sendmail_enable=no , in /etc/rc.conf). The other change is, I removed the binary of sendmail under /usr/sbin. And the last change I made is a simbolic link from sendmail to Exim(usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/local/sbin/exim). I done this, because whenever the cron calls to do the routine messaging via sendmail it will point towards exim, I must add that it does work rather nicely. And don't worry about /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh it gets called up at bootup. Ohhhh yeah...and I have nothing but praise for Exim. Thanx Marius Vincent Technical ELCB Information Services Hello! As I don't quite understand the configuration of sendmail and don't really want to learn how sendmail is to be configured, I'd like to install exim as the MTA on my system. What do I need to do to - disable sendmail -> is it enough, when I insert a line sendmail_enable=no to my /etc/rc.conf? - remove sendmail -> which package contains sendmail? I grepped through the listing of pkg_info -La for /usr/sbin/sendmail, and did not find anything at all. - install exim 3.13 -> I downloaded exim-3.13.tgz from ftp.freebsd.org and pkg_add'ed it. That was a pretty easy step ;-) - enable exim 3.13 -> Okay, I found /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh. How do I make sure that this script is executed at boot time? Would I create a /etc/rc.local and insert a call to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh there? Would that be enough? This question also applies to MySQL which seems to be started thru /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh. Thanks for your help! Oh, almost forgot to mention: I'm using FreeBSD 4.0. Alexander Skwar -- Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com Sichere Mail? PGP/GnuPG Keys als Antwort auf Mail mit Betr: Get GPG Key ICQ: 7328191 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
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