Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 12:53:18 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: tyler@tysdomain.com, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: removing sendmail, updating jails and etc Message-ID: <538B061E.9010700@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <538A3708.3020708@tysdomain.com> References: <538A3708.3020708@tysdomain.com>
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On 2014-05-31 22:09, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello all: > Per my usual style, I have a few questions. > > First, I set up Postfix on my host system and that's what all email > should be running through. I'm noticing though that some jails are > running sendmail processes--possibly to try to get out some kind of > emails (periodic, I'm guessing). > Is there a way to remove sendmail altogether and force all jails or all > services to send mail to the host IP? I can enable relay for those if > that's what's needed, but I'd really like to filter everything through > postfix sendmail. > > Finally, I'm noticing that some of my jails are falling behind in terms > of updates. I use ezjail; I upgraded to pkgNG on the host system and > other jails are still running behind. This makes sense, but I'm curious > what people use to help keep jails updated. Most importantly, I'd like > to be able to update ports and run freebsd-update (is this needed) from > the jail on cron. the freebsd-update works, but it returns errors about > a kernel (which is pretty much to be expected). > Thanks in advance for any info--I really appreciate it. Appologies as > well for all the questions; I'm making my way from Linux to BSD and > trying to be a useful server admin. With my luck I've probably already > got a few people doing evil things with it, but I'll learn in time. > I really think you should look at the handbook. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-changingmta.html
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