From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 19:54:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07CE516A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:54:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mail2.fluidhosting.com [204.14.90.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1487543D4C for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:54:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 54248 invoked by uid 399); 3 Jan 2006 19:54:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Jan 2006 19:54:11 -0000 Message-ID: <43BAD660.5050900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:54:08 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eischen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Vivek Khera , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:54:13 -0000 Daniel Eischen wrote: > 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. Well, I certainly understand your perspective, although I'm not sure I agree. Feel free to create a patch that does what you want it to do, and send it to freebsd-rc@ and gshapiro@ for review, and we'll see what others have to say about it. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection