FS#8353 - ssmtp places sendmail in wrong location

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Neil Darlow (neildarlow) - Friday, 19 October 2007, 16:48 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 28 October 2007, 19:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: ssmtp places sendmail in /usr/bin when it should really place it in /usr/sbin. Packages such as dcron and mailx expect sendmail to be located in /usr/sbin and it's not really an end-user executable. You need to symlink /usr/bin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail to satisfy these packages.


Additional info:
ssmtp-2.61-4
Evidence for moving /usr/bin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail:
[neil@aurora ~]$ strings /usr/sbin/crond |grep sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail
[neil@aurora ~]$ strings /usr/bin/mail |grep sendmail
[- sendmail-options ...]
sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail

Steps to reproduce: If you attempt to send a mail using mail (from package mailx) it tries to use /usr/sbin/sendmail.
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 19:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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