S.N.Grigoriev wrote:
13.01.10, 14:29, "Miroslav Lachman" <000.f...@quip.cz>:S.N.Grigoriev wrote:[...] > I thank you for your response. All you wrote is quite right.> But it is a general rule not to use in the system two sets > of slightly different programs with duplicating names. It is > a direct way to have problems. > > For example, all third party scripts should be revised to check > absolute pathes, program search results becomes depending > of the PATH value, and so on. > > It is relatively easy to do such revisions on a small home system. > But a production server with significant amount of third party software > will require a lot of time to do that job. > > To my mind it will be better to have an options in the port Makefile > allowing to replace the sendmail files in place.I fully understand your doubts, but if you are talking about PATH and the stuff, sendmail from PATH (/usr/sbin/sendmail) is not a real sendmail, it is symlink to wrapper using settings from /etc/mail/mailer.conf.No application can be confused.Miroslav LachmanMiroslav, absolute paths may be used not ony to start sendmail program but,for example, to automatically build .mc files from .m4 files in /usr/share/sendmail/cf directory. For port sendmail it becomes/usr/local/share/sendmail/cf
Unless you set a couple of variables in /etc/make.conf as I described. Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW
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