Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:15:27 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <20001014161527.F22336@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <39E5F147.AF8694@gorean.org> References: <91985.971336768@critter> <39E5F147.AF8694@gorean.org>
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Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> wrote: >Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> Jordan Hubbard writes: >> > >> >The USWest FreeBSD boxes don't run sendmail at all yet send me >> >email regularly. :) >> >> Right, but if immediate delivery fails, it is queued for later >> transmission, and if you have no sendmails attending to the queue... > > cron is your friend. The advantage of configuring the sendmail queue runner in rc.conf rather than by using cron is that you only have to alter one file to switch between a send-only and a send-receive config. Also, sysinstall doesn't know about crontab, so it can't configure a queue runner that way. Tony. -- en oeccget g mtcaa f.a.n.finch v spdlkishrhtewe y dot@dotat.at eatp o v eiti i d. fanf@covalent.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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