FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

Mike Woods Mike at the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk
Sun Apr 17 02:16:40 PDT 2005


Tim Hogan wrote:
> I have recently done a system update to address some security issues and
> discovered that during the update the soft links in my /usr/sbin
> directory were re-written back to the system defaults.  I believe that I
> have changed the mailq, sendmail, and newaliases soft links back to what
> they should be, but is there a way to verify the postfix installation?
> Is there a way to keep FreeBSD from doing this during a build world?

As the installation messages would have said you need to edit your 
make.conf and add the line "NO_SENDMAIL=TRUE" to stop the system 
building sendmail when you do a build world.

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Mike Woods
Systems Administrator


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