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On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 03:41:50PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
> Why rmail is sitting in /bin, while it is useful only with uuxqt & sendmail?
>
Historically, I think. NetBSD and OpenBSD install it to /bin as well.
> Why it is linked statically?
>
It is linked dynamically in 3.x and CURRENT as of
src/bin/rmail/Makefile,v 1.7 1998/08/04 15:19:16 peter Exp $
# ldd /bin/rmail
/bin/rmail:
libc.so.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3 (0x28063000)
> Is it more right to move it to /usr/sbin or /usr/libexec/uucp and link
> dynamically?
>
Personally I think it would make sense. The suggested path (see
src/contrib/sendmail/rmail/Makefile.m4) is /usr/sbin.
Let's see what Peter thinks.
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