From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 09:46:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B27E716A418 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:46:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E3E13C48A for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:46:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c24so80105ana for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.229.10 with SMTP id b10mr2087284anh.1193305577334; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm2581161wrl.2007.10.25.02.46.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:46:18 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <435060d02e5bb953e1c9413c623d2564@prodigy.net> References: <435060d02e5bb953e1c9413c623d2564@prodigy.net> Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAIVBMVEX+7+6BM0IyMg7+5fri vGf+mZn////d5ucyM0Jjm2vOMzPtzkgwAAAAB3RJTUUHsQwfFzs7RBhzUQAAAhJJREFUOI1t k89q20AQxmWIY8htFwfLumkukR6gDxDYIpJTVAg0PunQ7F4dkLTYR0GodCvCjazeFHoo+5Sd lf/tWp6DJObHzDff7Mrhh5DcCufwsWovg1fS9G/x+wzE83wH6g8L/FAzPulV3kILrLv5ikK1 5DyF3ASKgE8CCHL+Rn8ZIFGEKI+SIsw8C3ClmFKdT32l4M4E3fTmLyM+8dQ/sCri6PHpq9dR QsAGmyVbjr2O+EVgj3u7YRH701EAsA3O23bDPA3erZUI8MtKa2gnBkgWnQ/hWIPQ2m6ilKKz TJ0BISceupveK4rrMivSaNGpEiGh8PMEEpmyNVrGIMVh2L6CRakE3QwIhLkBUsZyQXDxxIWG H0HK8pQ50Rc8D+KeCriT4C7Y4+fTChdYHKV1qwmLsvvPRuBR0fDaAL1Bd77AqTqzlX6MlVv4 2gecAUFc9NfhKTU24CPaGx8CvipRAY0PAI+xwL0ERuivLIJ8AG6gLAEugLVywa9PyzUATjut hxqvOJVb1OEACNKhuCFy/AdrvGtQmEe7j7YOyjI8OdkDkbXbaltVsoBKXh+ATB9KqEodufgO UDXLHsjIGW3Yi84X2Ei0KNdokD2nreNcbdsd0I1f4ENXyOfpFXvQFVU/rZDJt1BrTJbSkTGm m142iWeyvttPNZFZI3fmkhhvapgffRwC8yRocj4AK/y5MM//A2fdrlbSnOlbAAAAAElFTkSu QmCC Message-Id: <20071025054530.B192.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.41 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: Periodic.conf? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:46:18 -0000 On October 24, 2007 at 09:50PM jekillen wrote: > The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to > switch over to Postfix from SendMail: > > Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail > specific that need to be disabled. That is done within /etc/periodic.conf as > such: > > daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" > daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" > daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" > daily_submit_queuerun="NO" > > However, there is no periodic.conf on my system: > v6.2. There is a periodic directory with specific > subdirectories. One is 'daily' but I do not know > which one would have the above entries. Create the /etc/periodic.conf file and populate it with the correct information. > When I installed the OS, I had it include the > Postfix package when sysinstall queried for > package choices. > I want to set this machine up as a hub mail server > for four web sites on four separate machines that > are connected via inside network. I have not dealt > with e-mail related software in general and Postfix > or Sendmail specifically. Since I brought in Postfix > as a package, I am afraid of trying to install it from > Ports for complications, unless ports will account > for that. You could delete the package and then install it from ports. > There were also advices to place several entries > in rc.conf to disable SendMail. There are no entries > either for SendMail, not Postfix there to begin with > in rc.conf. You have to add them. Please read /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message for further details. That is the last stable version of Postfix, by the way. The beta version is under 'postix-current'. You should also check out: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html for further details. > > In mailer.conf I was told it should look like this: > sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > > There were two other entries, hoststat and > purgstat. Should these be kept, modified > or eliminated? > If you install Postfix from the ports system, it will offer to make these modifications for you. See my above comment. -- Gerard