Subject: Re: Proposal: removal of sendmail and postfix from base install
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Post <apost@recalcitrant.org>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/2005 16:38:41
In article <20050318101124.04ca7e9c.mishka@apk.od.ua>, Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
>
> 1) use MKSENDMAIL=no, MKPOSTFIX=no and so on, like it have done
> for kerberos and some other packages...
If one uses these options, is there a way to delete the currently
installed base-system Sendmail or Postfix or BIND? Given that
/usr/libexec/sendmail is setuid-root, leaving it unupdated seems like
a problem waiting to happen.
Alan