sendmail issue

[Emanuel Strobl]

Am Donnerstag, 10. Februar 2005 06:04 schrieb saravanan ganapathy:
> --- Emanuel Strobl <emanuel.strobl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2005 16:15 schrieb saravanan
[...]
> > > which is in /etc/rc.d/sendmail
> >
> > Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base system. I don't
> > know if the prot disables
> > the base sendmail, you can always add
> > 'sendmail_enable="NONE"' to
> > your /etc/rc.conf.
> >
> > -Harry
>
> How to uninstall the sendmail which comes in the base
> system?

You're using a complete and standardized operating system, whose developers 
decided to have MTA functionality, realised by sendmail.
You cannot uninstall it, nor do you have the choice to install it or not.
It's like with all the other commands, name it tar or cpio. It's part of the 
operating system but you're not forced to use it.
And since ports are standardized to be installed in /usr/local no program will 
interfere with the base system's version.

You can go the source part and comnpile your world yourself, then you can 
decide what parts to install into a new root, but then you have to do the 
setup by hand, no installer. You can make your own OS based on FreeBSD 
though.
See /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf for details

> How to know what are all the packages are comes by
> default in the base system?

No packages are in the base system, it's the base system itself (like 
explained before)
See the handbook for the operating systems features 
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html, also 
have a look for the handbook in your native language)

-Harry
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