From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 09:46:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F96B16A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:46:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9370C43D2F for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:46:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a085.otenet.gr [212.205.215.85]) j3H9jH0O016676 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:45:18 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3H9M9fq001065 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:22:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j3H9M9dL001064; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:22:09 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 12:22:09 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tim Hogan Message-ID: <20050417092209.GA912@gothmog.gr> References: <4261D3AA.2000209@hoganzoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4261D3AA.2000209@hoganzoo.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:46:26 -0000 On 2005-04-16 21:10, 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? What you are trying to accomplish with those soft links can be done in a very easier manner if you use mailer.conf(5). Let those soft links be as they should *really* be (the way installworld sets them up), and edit your /etc/mail/mailer.conf file to invoke Postfix. Alternatively, if you are truly convinced that mailer.conf(5) is not good for you, you may find a look at the description of NO_SENDMAIL and NO_MAILWRAPPER in make.conf(5) very interesting :-)