Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 10:53:55 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com> To: "Jin Guojun[DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/39444: rc.sendmail syntax error: cannot disable sendmail Message-ID: <20020619105355.B21469@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3D10386F.BD245FCA@lbl.gov>; from j_guojun@lbl.gov on Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:53:19AM -0700 References: <3D0FB406.83DE356D@lbl.gov> <20020618155900.O2483-100000@master.gorean.org> <15632.6996.519381.823439@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3D102055.F08DD2AE@FreeBSD.org> <15632.9131.365021.260177@horsey.gshapiro.net> <3D10386F.BD245FCA@lbl.gov>
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On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 12:53:19AM -0700, Jin Guojun[DSD] wrote: [snip] > There is no need for another method to do above. Issues are: > > (1) NONE is used only here, so it is not a "standard" syntax for general > purpose. It is not clear if it means sendmail_enable=NO in old system or > not. So, above information with some further explanation need to be put > into /etc/mail/README and/or in man/rc.sendmail. > It is confusing. From the 4.6 Release Notes, With this sendmail upgrade, multiple sendmail daemons (some required to handle outgoing mail) are started by rc(8), even if the sendmail_enable variable is set to NO. To completely disable sendmail, sendmail_enable must be set to NONE. Alternatively, for systems using a different MTA, the mta_start_script variable can be used to point to a different startup script (more details can be found in rc.sendmail(8)). The "NONE" has already been discussed to _death_ on -current and -stable. See, http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=257186+261471+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20020331.freebsd-current This and the other changes to sendmail(8) are documented in the release notes, /etc/mail/README, /usr/src/UPDATING, and /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES. If people don't find the information in one of these places, putting it in yet another location probably will not help. > (2) From /etc/mail/README, running a daemon to accept localhost is needed > for outbound traffic. If sendmail_submit_enable=NO and sendmail_enable=NO, > then outbound mail will silently sinks. This needs to be clearly stated > in some place easy to see because this is new. It's in the release notes (as quoted above) and /usr/src/UPDATING points to /etc/mail/README. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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