From owner-freebsd-security Wed Feb 14 14:21:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.unixathome.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C290537B65D for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ns1.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1EMKoo15140; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:20:50 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200102142220.f1EMKoo15140@ns1.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: Trond Endrestøl Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 11:20:36 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-printable Subject: Re: security settings documentation Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: Mikhail Kruk , Ragnar Beer , References: In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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