Hello Dirk, Sunday, August 27, 2006, 2:13:03 AM, you wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > Hello, > I have the following problem: since I need and do not like any kind of > smtp activity in my jails (there's no 127.0.0.1 in a jail, all services > listen to the jails external interface), I put those lines into my > /etc/rc.conf: > sendmail_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > this works fine: nothing listening on the jails interface... except that > cron tries to deliver its status mails and fails. > While failing, sendmail seems to hog cpu and finally floods > /var/spool/clientmqueue and /var/log/maillog. > My quick fix now is to replace /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with > /usr/bin/true in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, however: it seems problematic > that cron insists on a mail sub system, when all it should do is execute > stuff periodically. There should be an option to let it only log to a file. check /etc/defaults/periodic.conf > For my jails this would make sense, too: I never read root's mails > locally, anyway. > Am I missing the obvious solution here? > erdgeist -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
