On Monday May 19, juri@koschikode.com wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > There is a compile-time option which I have just made more explicit in > > the Makefile. > > If you add: > > -DSendmail=\""/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"\" > > to the CFLAGS line in the makefile you will change how mail is sent by > > default. > > The question is: why does it default to /usr/lib? Yes, I know that this > is the historical place, but on virtually all Linux distributions > sendmail is in /usr/sbin and if you're lucky you have a compatibility > link to /usr/lib. As mdadm is intended to be used on Linux and not on any > other Unix system I don't see the point in defaulting to /usr/lib. Must be my grey hairs showing. This 'sbin' thing still feels like a wierd new invention that is some sort of cross between /etc and /usr/lib. When I first used a machine post locally-hacked-Edition-7 Unix, the gateway to the mail system was "/usr/lib/sendmail", and "/usr/lib/sendmail" has been there ever since, so I haven't seen a need to change. Old habits die hard. NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
