Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:53:22 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: James <james@idea-anvil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail running on localhost 25? Message-ID: <20041225215322.GE3143@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200412241729.06087.james@idea-anvil.net> References: <20041224065512.29367.qmail@rahul.net> <200412240326.16142.james@idea-anvil.net> <20041224161643.GA40553@ei.bzerk.org> <200412241729.06087.james@idea-anvil.net>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 05:29:05PM -0700, James wrote:
> On Friday 24 December 2004 09:16 am, Ruben de Groot wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 03:26:15AM -0700, James typed:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Use:
> > > sendmail_enable="none"
> > >
> > > This will disable all sendmail processes.
> >
> > This will also disable those annoying daily, weekly and montly
> > messages recieved from cronjobs.
> >
> > Who wants to read about your disks filling up, attempts to break into
> > your server and other futilities anyway ;-)
>
> Thanks for the heads up on that.... Is there a way to make cron use something
> other then sendmail?
If you specify in /etc/periodic.conf:
daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"
The logs from periodic will go to those files instead.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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