On Mon, 4 May 1998, David W. Tamkin wrote:
dattier> I wrote,
dattier>
dattier> | > That shell choice is hard-coded into the MTA at compilation
dattier> | > time.
dattier>
dattier> Rick Troxel corrected that,
dattier>
dattier> | At least with sendmail (which is a safe assumption, since
dattier> | arbitrary MTAs need not honor .forward at all), it is not
dattier> | hard-coded but set by the P= equate in the Mprog line of
dattier> | sendmail.cf.
dattier>
dattier> Thanks for the correction, Rick. Then it is configurable
dattier> ... by the sysadmin. Still, from the user's viewpoint, what's
dattier> carved in stone is carved in stone, regardless of who was
dattier> holding the chisel. We peons cannot select which shell will
dattier> interpret our .forward files.
And even non-peons would be ill advised to change this setting, IMHO.
Best regards,
--
Rick Troxel Rick_Troxel(_at_)nih(_dot_)gov
rick(_at_)helix(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov
http://www.dc-sage.org/bios/rick_troxel 301/435-2983
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