From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 14 14:11:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ramstind.gtf.ol.no (ramstind.gtf.ol.no [128.39.174.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E10637B491 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:11:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by ramstind.gtf.ol.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA44882; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:11:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:11:07 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= To: Rob Simmons Cc: Mikhail Kruk , Ragnar Beer , Subject: Re: security settings documentation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Rob Simmons wrote: > If you disable sendmail altogether, doesn't that keep the daily/weekly > root mails from being sent? No. Take a look at /etc/crontab: # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 59 1 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root As you can see, sendmail is run explicitly for the daily, weekly, and monthly runs. The security output is normally part of the daily run job. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trond Endrestøl | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.31 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message