Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:20:36 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Trond Endrestøl <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: <200102142220.f1EMKoo15140@ns1.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102142308140.30853-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102141638540.15577-100000@mail.wlcg.com>
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On 14 Feb 2001, at 23:11, Trond Endrest=F8l 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. Thats not the latest /etc/crontab: # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php got any work? I'm looking for some. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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