From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 6:10:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.wxs.nl (smtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.6.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB1A155AC for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 06:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.197.58]) by smtp02.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAC1300; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:10:06 +0200 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA65019; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:41:18 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:41:18 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade clobbering my "sendmail" Message-ID: <19991004144118.S63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> References: <19991004123851.O11327@africaonline.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19991004123851.O11327@africaonline.co.ke> Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On [19991004 11:42], Anand Buddhdev (arb@anand.org) wrote: >I've done binary upgrades from 3.0 to 3.1, and from 3.1 to 3.2. Both >times, the upgrade clobbered my sendmail->qmail link, and overwrote it >with the real sendmail. I had to fix it manually both times. Is FreeBSD >going to stick to sendmail always, or do they plan on making sendmail an >option, so that an upgrade doesn't clobber our qmail/exim/postfix >installations? Aside from the tons of projects I have I am also looking into making MTA a more modular choice for advanced and guru users within sysinstall. It will surely mean that sendmail gets kicked to ports. But if you feel like helping have a go at the sysinstall sources. /usr/src/release/sysinstall FYI, HAND, -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best Delirious again, mesmerise my senses, our Souls entwine one more time... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message