During subsequent system upgrades, of you build from source, you should watch out for thus during the mergemaster piece.
Brian On Jun 22, 2012 11:44 AM, "Matthew Seaman" <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 22/06/2012 19:19, Walter Hurry wrote: > > It seems that Sendmail is embedded somehow in the base system. What is > > the 'approved' way to get rid of /usr/bin/mailq? Or better, remove > > Sendmail? > > You don't need to remove the base system sendmail. All you need to do > is set up /etc/mail/mailer.conf properly -- and installing the postfix > port should do that for you -- and then any reference to > /usr/sbin/sendmail, /usr/bin/mailq, usr/bin/hoststat etc. will run > postfix instead. It's really very nicely done. > > See mailer.conf(5) > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > PS. Alright, yes. You can prevent sendmail from being built as part of > the base system by defining 'WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=yes' in /etc/src.conf, but > this supposes that you want to build the system yourself, rather than > using, say, freebsd-update(8). See src.conf(5) and read in > /usr/src/UPDATING and the Handbook about the procedure for building the > system from source. > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"