FreeBSD system update killing PostFix links?

[Tim Hogan]

Mike Woods wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---------------------
> Mike Woods
> Systems Administrator


Thanks, must have missed that one.  AS soon as the next advisory come 
out I'll get to test it :)

Tim

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