From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 14 14:19:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wlcg.com (mail.wlcg.com [207.226.17.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4299237B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:19:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rsimmons@localhost) by mail.wlcg.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1EMHcR38215; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:17:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rsimmons@wlcg.com) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:17:38 -0500 (EST) From: Rob Simmons To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Cc: Mikhail Kruk , Ragnar Beer , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security settings documentation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ok. Then having sendmail disabled in Fascist profile would be ok. But the High profile should still have sendmail_flags=3D"-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 Endrest=F8l wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Rob Simmons wrote: >=20 > > If you disable sendmail altogether, doesn't that keep the daily/weekly > > root mails from being sent? >=20 > No. Take a look at /etc/crontab: >=20 > # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance > 59=091=09*=09*=09*=09root=09periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root > 30=093=09*=09*=096=09root=09periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail root > 30=095=091=09*=09*=09root=09periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root >=20 > 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. >=20 > --=20 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Trond Endrest=F8l | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no > Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.5-S & Pine 4.31 >=20 >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message