Bug 16721
| Summary: | 4.0 upgrade clobbers qmail port | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Bill Trost <trost> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
Bill Trost
2000-02-15 04:40:01 UTC
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 08:35:15PM -0800, Bill Trost wrote: > > Upgrade was from a snapshot of 3.4-stable, probably from December. > > >Description: > > When FreeBSD is upgraded, sendmail is installed on top of the qmail > installation. This wouldn't be a big problem if it didn't actually > try to start delivering mail (and failing miserably, at least for me). > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Uhh...I'd start by installing the qmail port, and then upgrading > FreeBSD. (-: > > >Fix: > > Remove spoon from cup. Reinstalling the qmail port after deinstalling > it seems to clear things up. > > Really, I don't know what the right solution is. One big help might > be a warning to the effect of "hey, dummy, sendmail is a symlink -- > if you use some other MTA, you might make sure to reinstall it before > going into multi-user mode." > > Don't forget rmail, too -- that was the one that bit me (although it > is not technically part of qmail). Actually what you want to do is edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to point to qmail's replacement for the sendmail programs. -Chris -- cpiazza@jaxon.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org Abbotsford, BC, Canada To quote from /etc/make.conf: # To avoid building sendmail #NO_SENDMAIL= true State Changed From-To: open->closed The qmail port was recently updated to explain the proper procedure for installing on 4.0 |
