Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc
On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think should happen is that local .mc should be updated and then .cf generated. Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. Any comments? many thanks anton Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered whenever freebsd.mc is updated? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:03:26PM +, Chris Rees wrote: On 28 January 2010 16:59, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think should happen is that local .mc should be updated and then .cf generated. Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. Any comments? many thanks anton Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered whenever freebsd.mc is updated? I see.. so you are saying that freebsd.mc shouldn't even be touched at all, all local chages should be made straight to local .mc? thank you -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc
On Jan 28, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Because your carefully crafted local .mc files shouldn't be clobbered whenever freebsd.mc is updated? I see.. so you are saying that freebsd.mc shouldn't even be touched at all, all local chages should be made straight to local .mc? Please see /etc/mail/Makefile: # # This Makefile uses `HOSTNAME.mc' as the default MTA .mc file. This # can be changed by defining SENDMAIL_MC in /etc/make.conf, e.g.: # # SENDMAIL_MC=/etc/mail/myconfig.mc # # If 'HOSTNAME.mc' does not exist, it is created using 'freebsd.mc' # as a template. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: make doesn't see changes in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:16 +, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I've seen this behaviour for years, but never bothered to ask why. Imagine I already have in /etc/mail local .mc and .cf files. Imagine I then update freebsd.mc. When I run make nothing happens. What I think should happen is that local .mc should be updated and then .cf generated. Because of this behaviour I have to manually delete local .mc files and all .cf files before running make. Or merge your local changes *into* the local.mc file. For example, I have several dozen lines of local customizations in HOSTNAME.mc here: r...@kobe:/etc/mail# diff -u freebsd.mc kobe.mc | diffstat -p1 kobe.mc | 167 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) I would be very annoyed if updating freebsd.mc clobbered these :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
