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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:43:42 -0400
From:      Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>
To:        Alexander Werner Skwar <askwar@DigitalProjects.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing exim and removing sendmail
Message-ID:  <3909877E.59E14605@wmptl.com>
References:  <20000428084643.E8007@gartenfrucht.DigitalProjects.com>

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By default, ANY .sh file located in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is executed at
startup. You do not need to put any calls to them anywhere; /etc/rc
should already call them. Try doing a 'ps -ax' and see if exim/mysql are
running. Yes, echo 'sendmail_enable="no"' >>/etc/rc.conf , is the only
thing you need to do to disable sendmail; do not remove it.

Nathan Vidican
webmaster@wmptl.com
Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd.
http://www.wmptl.com/


Alexander Werner Skwar wrote:
> 
> 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
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