In the last episode (Aug 04), RW said: > mailwrapper checks to see how it was invoked and then looks up the > appropriate command in mailer.conf. All of the entries in > mailer.conf point to /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail, so how does that > binary know what it's supposed to do.
The kernel passes the executable name to the running process along with the rest of the commandline arguments. If you run "ls -l /tmp", for example, the ls binary gets "ls", "-l", and "/tmp" as its arguments. See around line 360 of src/contrib/sendmail/src/main.c. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/sendmail/src/main.c?annotate=HEAD -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
