Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:21:21 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601031418430.525-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <CEA9BDC1-57C9-4467-8A79-E3044A4B0ED7@khera.org>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2005, at 6:56 PM, security wrote: > > > And the rc.sendmail(8) under 5.4 stable says that "NONE" is > > deprecated and will be removed in a future release. According to > > the man page, > > It says that in 6.0 also, so it will probably be at least until 7.0 > that it continues to work. > > Personally, I think having to set a bazillion variables to turn off > sendmail in rc.conf and periodic.conf is just a pain (and probably a Strongly seconded. There should be one knob to disable the entire thing. SENDMAIL_ENABLE=NO should disable *everything* without touching any other knobs. > wrong design as it totally violates POLA), but at least it is just a > cut/paste everytime I set up a new server. -- DE
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