Martijn van Duren <[email protected]> wrote: > Gilles should probably elaborate, but the way things are now is that > system(3) is used to start the filters, allowing us to run any arbitrary > (set of) command(s) as a filter. > > Since the filters now in ports are non-interactive commands I proposed > to move them to /usr/local/libexec/smtpd, which gilles@ is a proponent > of. This however means that all filters need to be specified by a full > path, which is not something I would promote. > > Hence the proposition of this diff.
None of that prevents using an absolute path. absolute path execution is "the rule" when it comes to libexec. For instance, inetd.conf
