From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 17:16:37 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD8537B503; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:16:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA20749; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:16:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:16:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n37.san.rr.com To: Peter Wemm Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-Reply-To: <200010122222.e9CMMmG35106@netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message