sendmail and make file ....

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Vahric MUHTARYAN" <vahric at doruk.net.tr> writes:

> Hi Everybody , 
>  
>             I can leave sendmail from base system . First I updated src tree
> then I copyed /etc/default/make.conf under  /etc directory and remove the "
> #  " in front of the NO_SENDMAIL = true , then I maked 
>  make buildworld
>  make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME
>  make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNELNAME
>  make installworld
>  mergemaster -cv ( I installed all changed files with using " i "  )
>  reboot

Okay, so what you did was rebuild all of your system except for
sendmail.  The sendmail that was already in the system is still
there.  

> I did not modify rc.conf for seeing what will be happend if I dont remove '
> # ' in front of sendmail , after reboot I saw that FreeBSD run SENDMAIL
> again and when I wrote whereis sendmail on the command prompt I saw like
> this ... 
> gecetrn# whereis sendmail
> sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail /usr/src/contrib/sendmail
> /usr/ports/mail/sendmail
>  
>             Did  make a mistake ?! How can I remove sendmail from basesystem
> ?! 

Normally, you don't remove sendmail from the system.  Just configure
rc.conf to *not* start sendmail, and you will be fine.  
See "man rc.sendmail".