Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:17:08PM +0000, Redvers Davies wrote:
> > Under FreeBSD, you've got sendmail-wrapper instead, which you can
> > configure to point to any installed file.
> 
> Linux has that too - its called a symbolic link:
> 
> tonkatsu:~# ls -al /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Dec  9  1998 /usr/lib/sendmail -> 
>/usr/exim/bin/exim
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           18 Dec  9  1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> 
>/usr/exim/bin/exim

Yes, don't forget that symbolic links originated in BSD, thank you.  :-)

The reason for having an executable instead is so you don't have to
screw around with system directories.  For details, consult the FreeBSD
mailing list archives.

-Dom