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