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Date:      Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:16:41 +0100
From:      Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk>
To:        Tim Hogan <tim@hoganzoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
Message-ID:  <42622979.50805@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4261D3AA.2000209@hoganzoo.com>
References:  <4261D3AA.2000209@hoganzoo.com>

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Tim Hogan wrote:
> I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
> discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin
> directory were re-written back to the system defaults.  I believe that I
> have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what
> they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation?
> Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world?

As the installation messages would have said you need to edit your 
make.conf and add the line "NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE" to stop the system 
building sendmail when you do a build world.

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Mike Woods
Systems Administrator



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