Subject: Re: Proposal: removal of sendmail and postfix from base install
To: Alan Post <apost@recalcitrant.org>
From: Jim Wise <jwise@draga.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/2005 16:36:52
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On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Alan Post wrote:

>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.

  cd /usr/src/distrib/syspkg/sets
  make register
  pkg_delete -K /var/db/syspkg base-postfix-*

(s,postfix,sendmail, if your religion calls for it).
- -- 
				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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