Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:22:48 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> Cc: Valentin Nechayev <netch@lucky.net>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001012143415.C47252@diskfarm.firehouse.net>
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Alan Clegg wrote: > Unless the network is lying to me again, Valentin Nechayev said: > > > Adding `sendmail -q30m' to /etc/crontab is rather worse hack than > > `sendmail_flags=-q30m' in /etc/rc.conf. You cannot suppose each admin > > to understand such hacks... > > I'd recommend just adding 'sendmail -q' to cron, and I'd also suggest > that if the given method is documented correctly (and I'm sure everyone > documents their systems correctly), no admin worth their salt would > have any problem what-so-ever. Exposing sendmail to cron by default adds one more place that an admin may have to find and deal with when switching from sendmail to something else. IMHO, having sendmail *off* in rc.conf should mean "no sendmail at all", not having /usr/sbin/sendmail -q still being run behind your back. The daily processing shows the mailq already anyway. If you don't at least occasionally read them, then you're not using the tools available to you. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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