At 12:44 AM 1/22/2004 -0200, Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >> At 12:00 AM 1/22/2004 -0200, Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: >> >On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >> > >> >Is there any reason to not have the binaries in /usr/sbin ? >> >> Why change? The more so in light of your suggestion below. > >I thought the place for a daemon / server was /sbin or >/usr/sbin.
Yes, but for some reason the exim default is to go in (local)/bin Also it can be used directly by the user (not really recommended) on Win9x and with nontsec. >> >And can you add a /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink so any >> >applications looking for it at compile or run time find it ? >> >> Isn't there is already such a symlink, installed by cron, and pointing >> to ssmtp by default? I'd rather let the user decide what it should >> point to. > >I didn't know as I don't have ssmtp installed. Anyway, I don't >think such symlink should by default point to ssmtp, after all >the replacement / alternative for sendmail is exim. Because cron calls sendmail, sendmail must point to something. People who run cron from non-privileged accounts may have problem using exim as a mailer. It may not be able to write to the log file and access its databases if ntsec is on. exim postinstall easily create such a symlink if it doesn't exist already, which is what cron does. If a user installs both cron and exim the outcome will be indeterminate. Another option is to create such a link from exim-config, under user control. I will definitely add that in the next release. What do other people on this list think? Pierre
