Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:17:45 +0200 From: rank1seeker@gmail.com To: "Jonathan McKeown" <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, "Greg Larkin" <glarkin@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled Message-ID: <20120426.181745.913.5@DOMY-PC> In-Reply-To: <201204260852.25101.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <20120425.180906.586.4@DOMY-PC> <4F9848D6.5040703@FreeBSD.org> <201204260852.25101.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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----- Original Message ----- From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:52:25 +0200 Subject: Re: sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled > 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 I've thought NONE was a new, advanced form, which saves 4 lines of NO It ended up being deprecated one. Setting them all to NO, doesn't confuse 'service -e' anymore. Thx! Domagoj
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