confLINKS

confLINKS

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What to link to sendmail

Build macro

A few different names need to be created to make sendmail easier to use. Shown in Table 2-7, they are created by symbolic links to the sendmail binary (except smtpd , which is not automatically linked).

Table 2-7. Symbolic links to sendmail

Name	Description
hoststat	Print persistent host status
mailq	Display the queue
newaliases	Initialize alias database
purgestat	Purge persistent host status
smtpd	Run as a daemon

The names and locations of these links are defined with the confLINKS macro. The default values are:

 ${UBINDIR}/newaliases ${UBINDIR}/mailq ${UBINDIR}/hoststat ${UBINDIR}/purgestat 

Here, ${UBINDIR} is separately defined with the confUBINDIR macro (confUBINDIR). For example, if you wished to put all the links in /usr/local/bin and wanted to add smtpd to the list, you could do this:

 define(`confUBINDIR', `/usr/local/bin') APPENDDEF(`confLINKS', `${UBINDIR}/smptd') 

But be forewarned that if you put the links in a new location, you should probably also remove the old links from the former default location. Also note that -E DESTDIR (See this section) can be used to relocate all installation directories.