Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:39:49 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: housley@thehousleys.net Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Steve VanDevender <stevev@darkwing.uoregon.edu> Subject: Re: sendmail.mc Message-ID: <200004130139.VAA33254@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:59:23 -0000." <200004130059.UAA92329@thehousleys.net> References: <200004130059.UAA92329@thehousleys.net>
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> "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> said: > > > > > /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc is what you are looking to replace. > > > > > > > > If you don't want future cvsup's to quash your changes you'll want to do > > > > a "chflags schg /usr/src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc" after you have copied > > > > the new one into place. > > > > > > yucchhy! [ but thanks ] > > > > > > is the assumption of the one-time build really that acceptable? > > > > > > randy > > > > Yeah, yuk. It would be nice if the Makefile in /etc/mail could do this. > > This might require that the various m4 files be installed somewhere > > so you didn't depend on the source tree being around. > > > > The better/proper way is to copy it to my_sendmail.mc and edit that. Then > set SENDMAIL_CF=my_sendmail.cf in /etc/make.conf. That will then rebuild > my_sendmail.mc to my_sendmail.cf with each buildworld and install world. But do I really need the whole source tree around to build a sendmail.cf file? We expect folks to rebuild other "working files" in /etc/mail now, why not the sendmail.cf file? Perhaps there's a belief that you can have a sufficiently general config file, and customize the various databases it uses. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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