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Bug 200825 - mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2: installs to /usr/sbin
Summary: mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2: installs to /usr/sbin
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2007-11-30 10:35 UTC by Jeff Walter
Modified: 2007-11-30 16:06 UTC (History)
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Description Jeff Walter 2007-11-30 10:35:23 UTC
After updating all my packages a few days ago I noticed I stopped getting mails from my scripts.  After some debugging I found that none of the scripts could run `sendmail`.  mail-mta/ssmtp is supposed to provide this, and checking around I found `sendmail` in /usr/sbin.  Normal users don't have that in their PATH, so why was it moved there?  I see a symlink to /usr/sbin/sendmail as /usr/bin/mailq, but so many things depend on `sendmail` that it should probably be fixed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. `emerge mail-mta/ssmtp`
2. Login as some non-root user
3. `sendmail`

Actual Results:  
-bash: sendmail: command not found

Expected Results:  
sendmail: No recipients supplied - mail will not be sent

/var/db/pkg/mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2/CONTENTS
dir /etc
dir /etc/ssmtp
obj /etc/ssmtp/revaliases c5a68f52228de914a8059bbc1e93178f 1174615615
obj /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf eeae710f2d79b374cf4961358ae93c51 1174615615
obj /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf.orig a42028a2dfbe9b069c2eb26b65dddb01 1174615615
dir /usr
dir /usr/bin
dir /usr/lib
dir /usr/sbin
obj /usr/sbin/ssmtp f42491e38f736ba9a56c9f21197a1d59 1174615615
dir /usr/share
dir /usr/share/doc
dir /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2
obj /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2/CHANGELOG_OLD.bz2 7f77323184e79d9da7667c583cc485e8 1174615615
obj /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2/DESC.bz2 924e86dfa3d0d335d5c5371049c4e312 1174615615
obj /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2/INSTALL.bz2 977a0ad415885b1637817d5218286a3d 1174615615
obj /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2/README.bz2 06669264976794e7ceed8078d9387f4c 1174615615
obj /usr/share/doc/ssmtp-2.61-r2/TLS.bz2 9933a365ec4d3df37d2e68944f49d4a7 1174615615
dir /usr/share/man
dir /usr/share/man/man8
obj /usr/share/man/man8/ssmtp.8.bz2 63afb99b8e486912040c977c6fa9d15c 1174615615
sym /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp 1174615615
sym /usr/bin/mailq -> /usr/sbin/sendmail 1174615615
sym /usr/bin/newaliases -> /usr/sbin/sendmail 1174615615
sym /usr/lib/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/sendmail 1174615615
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-11-30 16:06:18 UTC
Been installed there for ages, exactly as with any other MTA out there.