Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:11:07 +0100 (CET) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> To: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> Cc: Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de>, <freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: security settings documentation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102142308140.30853-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102141638540.15577-100000@mail.wlcg.com>
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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
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