Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:12:33 -0500 From: "Danny" <bchadmin@eagleroaming.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf Message-ID: <20040423170449.M7263@eagleroaming.com> In-Reply-To: <40893B80.3040304@potentialtech.com> References: <20040423145250.M47348@eagleroaming.com> <40893B80.3040304@potentialtech.com>
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote > Danny wrote: > > Greetings, > > > > So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read the > > changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. > > > > So after the switch, I obviously get: > > > > Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh > > Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2176]: fatal: unsupported: -bH > > > > Because I did not: > > > > "Also, you will want to disable some Sendmail-specific daily maintenance > > routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file: > > > > daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" > > daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" > > daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" > > daily_submit_queuerun="NO"" > > > > However, I do not have a periodic.conf. How is the periodic running without a > > config file? > > > > Could someone please show me there periodic.conf file and why they chose the > > options they did, or maybe baseline. > > /etc/defaults/periodic.conf has all the default values for periodic. Defaults as a reference, or the defaults that are currently enforced even without /etc/periodic.conf? > You should _NOT_ endit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ... the point is > that /etc/periodic.conf overrides those defaults. So, in theory, IF (which I won't, don't worry) I did edit the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, and disabled the postfix & sendmail specified settings, those changes would be enforced even without a /etc/periodic.conf? Thank you.
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