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From: Tim Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:28:03 +1030
To: Grant Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Removing sendmail and getting roots mail> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 08:13:44PM -0800, Grant Cooper wrote: > > If I remove sendmail will that stop root from getting roots security reports? > > Yes, unless you install a different MTA (qmail, postfix etc) and > configure it correctly. > > If all you want to do is prevent incoming smtp connections, just use > sendmail_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. > > -tim > If you just want to shut off sendmail, you merely have to put: sendmail_enable="NONE" in /etc/rc.conf This will make periodic unhappy. However if you add a file called /etc/periodic.conf and put the lines: daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" daily_status_security_output="/var/log/daily.log" weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log" monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log" in it, you can still read said status reports in those files AND periodic won't whinge the night away, blatting stupid error messages up on your ttyv0 (not that error messages are a bad thing, per se) AND you won't have lovingly crafted emails from your computer telling you how much it loves you every morning at 03:00, although I can clearly see why this isn't the default behaviour. Anyway, it was all the abolitionists fault that the secessionists got so peeved. Love, Franklin Pierce -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
