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Date:      Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:20:45 +0100
From:      dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@mmgrover.com (Mike Grover)
Subject:   Re: Sendmail Install
Message-ID:  <QMG32qjKUD@dmeyer.dinoex.sub.org>
References:  <3E75CC7D.EF40916D@mmgrover.com>

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Mike Grover schrieb:,

> Does anybody know the options to force sendmail to install over the base
> sendmail from the ports directory?
> 
> is is just:   PREFIX=/usr

The recommened way to activate the ports is very simple:
$ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make clean install
$ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make mailer.conf

No trouble.



Why do you want to overwrite the base ...?

1- This will clobber your mailwrapper tools.
$ man mailer.conf

2- This will leave still old binaries in the system.
e.g.  /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail

3- Ther is no support to overite base with mailwrapper present.

4- To really install it in base, you must
add "NO_MAILWRAPPER=true" in your /etc/make.conf
$ rm -f /etc/mail/mailer.conf
$ cd /usr/ports/mail/sendmail && make clean install

Which is the comability mode for FreeBSD 2.8.x and FreeBSD 3.x releases.

kind regards Dirk

- Dirk Meyer, Im Grund 4, 34317 Habichtswald, Germany
- [dirk.meyer@dinoex.sub.org],[dirk.meyer@guug.de],[dinoex@FreeBSD.org]

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