Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:16:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010121712180.20179-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au>
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Peter Wemm wrote:
> 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.
True, but it's a pretty self-evident error. If cron tries to run
sendmail and gets the dreaded unexpected results, it is (or should be) an
obvious error.
> 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.
Please keep clear the fact that I am NOT advocating sendmail in
cron for any kind of default freebsd installation (nor do I think
anyone else is). You are correct that doing that would violate POLA in a
big way.
> 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.
As someone pointed out already, if you are getting N periodic
e-mails already where N is a sufficiently large number that N - 1 emails
might go unnoticed for a few days, this could be a problem.
Doug
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