Name
confNO_HELPFILE_INSTALL
Synopsis
Ordinarily, sendmail’s helpfile will be installed automatically. You can see this in part of Build’s output:
install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 helpfile /etc/mail/helpfile
There are legitimate reasons to suppress the installation of this
help file. Consider a site that has added legal disclaimers to that
file. Such a site might wish to leave the modified file in place, and
prevent it from being overwritten during installation of
sendmail. To prevent installation of the help
file, you can define this confNO_HELPFILE_INSTALL
macro:
define(`confNO_HELPFILE_INSTALL')
With this line in your m4 build file, the
preceding install
line will be eliminated during
installation.
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