Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:46:29 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601031444110.525-100000@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <43BAD3AB.302@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Doug Barton wrote: > First, rc.conf and periodic.conf are totally separate, so having just one > knob for both isn't practical now, but might be an interesting project down > the road. Second, IIRC the first implementation of sendmail_enable=no did > actually disable all of sendmail, but since people could not send mail > locally that turned out to be a POLA violation itself, so the current > two-stage system was developed. It's impossible to make everyone happy here, > so I think the current system is a reasonable compromise. No, you can still have *one* overriding knob to turn off everything. If folks want to enable/disable different parts of sendmail, they can do that with the other knobs. POLA says the one overriding sendmail knob should be sendmail_enable. -- DE
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