Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:17:38 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons <rsimmons@wlcg.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> 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.4.21.0102141711350.15577-100000@mail.wlcg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102142308140.30853-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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Ok. Then having sendmail disabled in Fascist profile would be ok. But
the High profile should still have sendmail_flags="-q30m" as I said in my
earlier mail.
release/sysinstall/config.c
515a516
> variable_set2("sendmail_flags", "-q30m", 1);
Robert Simmons
Systems Administrator
http://www.wlcg.com/
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, [ISO-8859-1] Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> 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
>
>
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