From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 23:37:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E392C16A419 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: from smtp116.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (smtp116.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.64.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1A0913C465 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:37:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jekillen@prodigy.net) Received: (qmail 8023 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2007 23:10:58 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=prodigy.net; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Mime-Version:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Message-Id:Content-Transfer-Encoding:From:Subject:Date:To:X-Mailer; b=arCzWJnB/zQOSIyUmOtK5C3P4r0ZVhfvpFwTT6z+7mC66lPY5pDxydP0jG8Kv5hOMeDGRER88wE2P8L2x2dCauCApAH1zK8CFbRG476E5tFFF/pUSEV5zjVaybYlWSWIAeze8wIilSm036lwtonhJYCvdt+lqVfIIRUAdlF5rN8= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?75.7.236.228?) (jekillen@prodigy.net@75.7.236.228 with plain) by smtp116.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2007 23:10:58 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: jywxZikVM1nuHT91kVjduWtzIhbWQDU954_dxL3eIZm4RNcW893m1oWMMYTfifxO.XfEzlfAIWcaEhOqqsCxUtyi4IYE8Jb8VWvqrJFnPLDJi1CJgLgM5tyRauX2 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) In-Reply-To: <20071025054530.B192.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <435060d02e5bb953e1c9413c623d2564@prodigy.net> <20071025054530.B192.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <4155bee38d717a99750b407b2aeab2e0@prodigy.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: jekillen Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:10:58 -0700 To: User Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: Re: Periodic.conf? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:37:39 -0000 On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Gerard wrote: > On October 24, 2007 at 09:50PM jekillen wrote: > > >> The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to >> switch over to Postfix from SendMail: >> >> Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail >> specific that need to be disabled. That is done within >> /etc/periodic.conf as >> such: >> >> daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" >> daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" >> daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" >> daily_submit_queuerun="NO" >> >> However, there is no periodic.conf on my system: >> v6.2. There is a periodic directory with specific >> subdirectories. One is 'daily' but I do not know >> which one would have the above entries. > > Create the /etc/periodic.conf file and populate it with the correct > information. > >> When I installed the OS, I had it include the >> Postfix package when sysinstall queried for >> package choices. >> I want to set this machine up as a hub mail server >> for four web sites on four separate machines that >> are connected via inside network. I have not dealt >> with e-mail related software in general and Postfix >> or Sendmail specifically. Since I brought in Postfix >> as a package, I am afraid of trying to install it from >> Ports for complications, unless ports will account >> for that. > > You could delete the package and then install it from ports. > >> There were also advices to place several entries >> in rc.conf to disable SendMail. There are no entries >> either for SendMail, not Postfix there to begin with >> in rc.conf. > > You have to add them. Please read /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message > for > further details. That is the last stable version of Postfix, by the > way. The > beta version is under 'postix-current'. You should also check out: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail- > changingmta.html > > for further details. > >> >> In mailer.conf I was told it should look like this: >> sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> >> There were two other entries, hoststat and >> purgstat. Should these be kept, modified >> or eliminated? >> > If you install Postfix from the ports system, it will offer to make > these > modifications for you. See my above comment. > > Thank you for the data; Much appreciated Jeff k