Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:23:17 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [6.3] How are those daemons started? Message-ID: <20080402182317.29762131@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200803312300.40087.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <vke2v3h9m7h709d684m23tk8cnm3tagejb@4ax.com> <20080331200620.GA75067@aleph.cepheid.org> <e5i2v35olubmp3inroqqoc7fm1stsmkuh5@4ax.com> <200803312300.40087.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:00:39 +0200 Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Monday 31 March 2008 22:27:55 Gilles wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:06:20 -0500, Erik Osterholm > > > > <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org> wrote: > > >Also note /etc/defaults/rc.conf which is /why/ these services > > >are on by default. Entries in /etc/rc.conf override entries in > > >/etc/defaults/rc.conf, so you should never change > > >/etc/defaults/rc.conf. > > > > Thanks guys. After reading /etc/defaults/rc.conf, I understood that > > the reason there's sendmail listening on TCP25 is so that local > > daemons can send e-mail to the admin. > > Somewhat. Most daemons can do fine without the socket listener and > invoke /usr/sbin/sendmail by default. Only ones that can't get > to /usr/sbin/sendmail (i.e.: chrooted daemons), but in my experience > they don't know how to talk SMTP either. As I understand it, modern versions of /usr/sbin/sendmail are just a frontend to the socket, so that they don't need to run setuid.
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