+++ michael@??? [exim-users] <23/09/01 21:24 -0000>:
> Wouldn't have symlinks from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /etc/mail, and from
> there to whereever the MTA lives, sufficed for keeping /usr out of the
> game? If not, then it's the first time I see bloat in BSD distributions.
> At least the NetBSD 1.5 manual page can't tell me the advantages of a
> program with a config file.
Well, mailwrapper's manpage has this to say (cheerfully admits it is an ugly
hack, though)
> Although having replacement programs that plug replace sendmail(8) helps in
> installing alternative MTAs, it essentially makes the configuration of the
> system depend on hard installing new programs in /usr. This leads to
> configuration problems for many administrators, since they may wish to
> install a new MTA without altering the system provided /usr. (This may be,
> for example, to avoid having upgrade problems when a new version of the
> system is installed over the old.) They may also have a shared /usr among
> several machines, and may wish to avoid placing implicit configura- tion
> information in a read-only /usr.
[...]
more about how it makes it easier to plug-and-play with MTAs ...
-suresh
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Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
