misc/103065: newaliases command of postfix overwritten

Daniel Gerzo danger at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 9 22:34:27 UTC 2006


Hello bug-followup,

 >> Reinstall postfix.
 >> A better solution would be of course to ask the user during installation of the base system or not overwriting newaliases when postfix is installed. Requiring a full path specification of newaliases and putting it in different locations is also a possible solution.
 
 > The latter is what the ports system already does when installing
 > postfix.  Unless you deliberately configured your system otherwise,
 > the postfix version of newaliases will go into /usr/local/bin/newaliases.

 Nobbut it's /usr/local/sbin/sendmail.

 Also users running postfix are supposed to add NO_SENDMAIL=yes to the
 /etc/make.conf file, I would say.

 Is there anyone else who think that this PR can be closed, as this
 "bug" is result of user's misconfiguration?

-- 
Best regards,
 Daniel                          mailto:danger at FreeBSD.org




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