From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 15 23: 4:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F053514C24 for ; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 23:04:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13529; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:04:36 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18216; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:04:35 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199911160704.SAA18216@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Gregory Bond To: Annelise Anderson Cc: Herbert Chang , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to disable sendmail on autoboot? In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:50:19 -0800. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 18:04:34 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Copy it to /etc/rc.conf and change YES to NO If by this you mean "copy /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf" - this is not a good idea. The system will not boot ("out of file descriptors" from infinitely recursing rc.conf scripts.) just add the relevent line ('sendmail_enable="NO"' in this case) to /etc/ rc.conf and leave the default one alone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message