Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 11:54:08 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO" Message-ID: <43BAD660.5050900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601031444110.525-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601031444110.525-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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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
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