Re: Beware when patching Solaris machines

[D. J. Bernstein]

Harald Hanche-Olsen writes:
> Now, one or more of these patches "upgraded" /usr/lib/sendmail (was a
> symlink to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail, became a "real" sendmail).

/etc/mta was designed to solve this problem:

   http://cr.yp.to/etc-mta.html

The standard qmail 2 installation will support /etc/mta. I expect other
MTAs to support /etc/mta too; it's in the interests of everybody except
Eric Allman.

---Dan