Isn't this supposed to tell FreeBSD not to start up the sendmail daemon processes? It doesn't on my system, just confirmed this via a new system build. FYI. FreeBSD-6.0 _F
Forrest Aldrich wrote:> Isn't this supposed to tell FreeBSD not to start up the sendmail daemon > processes? > > It doesn't on my system, just confirmed this via a new system build. FYI. > > FreeBSD-6.0Try sendmail_enable="NONE" and see what happens. Using just "NO" will still start a sendmail process, so you can send mail (but it won't start an SMTP server). "NONE" doesn't start any sendmail processes at all. -jav
On 01/01/2006, at 9:38 AM, Forrest Aldrich wrote:> Isn't this supposed to tell FreeBSD not to start up the sendmail > daemon processes?Have a read of /etc/defaults/rc.conf and try the sendmail_enable="NONE" flag. Ari Maniatis --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 PGP fingerprint 08 57 20 4B 80 69 59 E2 A9 BF 2D 48 C2 20 0C C8
On Saturday, December 31, 2005 10:38 PM when we last met our heroes, owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org <> was heard to say:> Isn't this supposed to tell FreeBSD not to start up the > sendmail daemon processes?You want NONE. This isn't documented in the defaults file, but is apparent when you look at the startup script. I've a feeling it's documented somewhere else, but can't remember right now. -- Rob | Oh my God! They killed init! You bastards!
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Vivek Khera wrote:> > On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:56 PM, security wrote: > > > And the rc.sendmail(8) under 5.4 stable says that "NONE" is > > deprecated and will be removed in a future release. According to > > the man page, > > It says that in 6.0 also, so it will probably be at least until 7.0 > that it continues to work. > > Personally, I think having to set a bazillion variables to turn off > sendmail in rc.conf and periodic.conf is just a pain (and probably aStrongly seconded. There should be one knob to disable the entire thing. SENDMAIL_ENABLE=NO should disable *everything* without touching any other knobs.> wrong design as it totally violates POLA), but at least it is just a > cut/paste everytime I set up a new server.-- DE