Re: Proposal. Register exchangable programms in basesystem as ports.

[Han <han@mijncomputer.nl>]

Wim Vandeputte (bunbun@reptile.rug.ac.be) wrote:
>>> mailwrapper(8) already has support for this particular replacement
>>> need.

>> Then I still would have to patch sendmail. But I don't use it. It's
>> on my system and I want to remove it. But there is no documentation
>> for removing sendmail. I have to sort it out myself or blindly
>> trust the developpers.

> Why? If you don't run Sendmail, just
> chmod 0000 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail and it's gone.

I found that tip in Bernsteins documentation. But this is not
documented. Rather nasty for that shell-admin who just came back from
vacation.

> Or if you are paranoid,

I am. Otherwise I would not use OpenBSD ;)

> look under /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/Makefile and see where it
> lives in the system.

Yes thats better than just locate sendmail.

> Removing it and not beeing carefull during the next make build will
> bring surprises.

Indeed now it gets tricky. Removing the word sendmail out off
/usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/Makefile is not a proper solution?

I also faguely remember something like adding a line to a bsd.mk file.


Cya, Han.