Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? As the installation messages would have said you need to edit your make.conf and add the line NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE to stop the system building sendmail when you do a build world. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? What you are trying to accomplish with those soft links can be done in a very easier manner if you use mailer.conf(5). Let those soft links be as they should *really* be (the way installworld sets them up), and edit your /etc/mail/mailer.conf file to invoke Postfix. Alternatively, if you are truly convinced that mailer.conf(5) is not good for you, you may find a look at the description of NO_SENDMAIL and NO_MAILWRAPPER in make.conf(5) very interesting :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
Mike Woods wrote: Tim Hogan wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? As the installation messages would have said you need to edit your make.conf and add the line NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE to stop the system building sendmail when you do a build world. - Mike Woods Systems Administrator Thanks, must have missed that one. AS soon as the next advisory come out I'll get to test it :) Tim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-04-16 21:10, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? What you are trying to accomplish with those soft links can be done in a very easier manner if you use mailer.conf(5). Let those soft links be as they should *really* be (the way installworld sets them up), and edit your /etc/mail/mailer.conf file to invoke Postfix. Alternatively, if you are truly convinced that mailer.conf(5) is not good for you, you may find a look at the description of NO_SENDMAIL and NO_MAILWRAPPER in make.conf(5) very interesting :-) I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the NO_MAILWRAPPER option will keep the system from building the mail wrapping application but do I need to worry about that since I am using the NO_SENDMAIL option? Will it still try to make softlinks? Regards, Tim smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
On 2005-04-17 06:19, Tim Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I edited the /etc/mail/mailer.conf before I did the last update and it did not seem to work. I think that I will try the NO_SENDMAIL option in the make.conf file and see what happens. One question though, the NO_MAILWRAPPER option will keep the system from building the mail wrapping application but do I need to worry about that since I am using the NO_SENDMAIL option? Will it still try to make softlinks? The symlinks will be made if one of these two options is missing. You need _BOTH_ options to avoid the creation of the symlinks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?
I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin directory were re-written back to the system defaults. I believe that I have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation? Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world? Regards, Tim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
