From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 8 00:32:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401DA16A47B for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:32:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from waspking2003@yahoo.com) Received: from web37204.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web37204.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5708843CB1 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:31:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from waspking2003@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 84692 invoked by uid 60001); 8 Dec 2006 00:32:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=xzbUDTS4EcCWN+swn+G2QxyA9BtwNTkAbKHV75aRUomudYRIPSE+VNlX0w4PBQ3jTWwDoMsb2VPnDZIOh5iIWUTtwhOwQfkt7xnujX6F7XZCNccb6y7rzYh3ZoAnCjxxoPeEpoqpSIS10KUUqCVFjZrIKTqD58dgjZE6VZwQlt4=; X-YMail-OSG: h8cX2K0VM1ls_IWVOvPv9v9iIle553BD3Tobc1iiDIQpm_Mbt8SgbIs4NaFKIFM3W76HoeAFRWarnZcv8pRnbBXcEqAmV2MAvYMNHWjcBXX.yJ67c1WlHWUNR3R1o5aBXmsmfBLPpGgxpgg- Received: from [24.11.159.55] by web37204.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:32:18 PST Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:32:18 -0800 (PST) From: Wasp King To: Lane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200612052208.54833.lane@joeandlane.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <343465.84021.qm@web37204.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:32:19 -0000 Thanks. this seem to work for me! --- Lane wrote: ___________________________________________________________________________ > IIRC, sendmail has three controlling values in > /etc/rc.conf: > > sendmail_enable="YES" > sendmail_enable="NO" > and > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > The third value, "NONE," causes the boot process to > ignore any attempt to > start sendmail. > > The second value, "NO," causes the boot process to > start sendmail for "local > delivery, only" (i.e. do NOT accept inbound > connections from external hosts). > > The first value, "YES," causes the boot process to > start sendmail for outgoing > and incoming SMTP connections. > > There are many "tweaks" that you can use in > /etc/rc.conf - (refer > to /etc/defaults/rc.conf) - that will allow various > flavors of sendmail > usage. See also, /etc/rc.sendmail. > > In your case sendmail_enable="NO" should allow the > local system to > send "periodic" information to root@localhost, or > whatever alias you use > in /etc/mail/aliases, while disallowing external > hosts from sending email by > way of the local host. Note that this requires that > you pay heed > to /etc/mail/Makefile and associated README > documentation > in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail and below. > > Best of luck! > > > lane > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know.