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Re: exim-4.30-1 available for upload


On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:

> At 12:00 AM 1/22/2004 -0200, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> >On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >
> >Is there any reason to not have the binaries in /usr/sbin ?
>
> Why change? The more so in light of your suggestion below.

I thought the place for a daemon / server was /sbin or
/usr/sbin.

> >And can you add a /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink so any
> >applications looking for it at compile or run time find it ?
>
> Isn't there is already such a symlink, installed by cron, and pointing
> to ssmtp by default? I'd rather let the user decide what it should
> point to.

I didn't know as I don't have ssmtp installed. Anyway, I don't
think such symlink should by default point to ssmtp, after all
the replacement / alternative for sendmail is exim.

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