Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:13:03 +0200 From: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: jails, cron and sendmail Message-ID: <44F0E38F.5030809@erdgeist.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have the following problem: since I need and do not like any kind of smtp activity in my jails (there's no 127.0.0.1 in a jail, all services listen to the jails external interface), I put those lines into my /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" this works fine: nothing listening on the jails interface... except that cron tries to deliver its status mails and fails. While failing, sendmail seems to hog cpu and finally floods /var/spool/clientmqueue and /var/log/maillog. My quick fix now is to replace /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail with /usr/bin/true in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, however: it seems problematic that cron insists on a mail sub system, when all it should do is execute stuff periodically. There should be an option to let it only log to a file. For my jails this would make sense, too: I never read root's mails locally, anyway. Am I missing the obvious solution here? erdgeist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFE8OOPImmQdUyYEgkRAlg8AJ94cvRnJO8y04wZdYdzaX1YM4SorACffJtE DN2NRiU437SGchnsOrh5hQs= =t0dd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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