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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:52:25 +0200
From:      Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled
Message-ID:  <201204260852.25101.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <4F9848D6.5040703@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20120425.180906.586.4@DOMY-PC> <4F9848D6.5040703@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:56:22 Greg Larkin wrote:
> On 4/25/12 2:09 PM, rank1seeker@gmail.com wrote:
> > # grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="NONE" # service -e |
> > grep sendmail /etc/rc.d/sendmail # ps -U root | grep sendmail
>
> /etc/rc.d/sendmail explicitly sets some variables to "NO" when
> sendmail_enable is "NONE".  Unfortunately, the service script does not
> take that into account, so if you want it to report correctly, place
> these lines in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

And in fact man 8 rc.sendmail says (under sendmail_enable in the RC.CONF 
VARIABLES section):

The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used.  It will be removed 
in a future release.

and later in the manpage:

To completely prevent any sendmail(8) daemons from starting, you must set the 
following variables in /etc/rc.conf:

           sendmail_enable="NO"
           sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
           sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
           sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"

Jonathan



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