On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:26:53PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > > > [...] > >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process > >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had > >> pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was > >> replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had > >> sendmail running again beside qmail. > > > > The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and > > tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is > > invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail. > > Yes, I actually corrected mailer.conf when the problem occurred, but I have > heard that some software will try to use /usr/sbin/sendmail explicitly > ignoring mailer.conf.
/usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. ie invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail will consult /etc/mail/mailer.conf. -- Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message