From owner-freebsd-security Fri Feb 16 13:56:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from klapaucius.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7565D37B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:56:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by klapaucius.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 336BC239AAB; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:56:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:56:24 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <20010216135624.C15584@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <3A885F40.9C6AD285@acm.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20010213090218.04eaa7a0@mail.Go2France.com> <3A897683.FCB8E651@softweyr.com> <20010215030742.P656@klapaucius.zer0.org> <3A8D66A3.46C4AF65@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8D66A3.46C4AF65@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:42:59AM -0700 Organization: Zer0 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001-02-16 10:42 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > On 2001-02-13 11:01 -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > As for my comments about the documentation: > > > > > > bash-2.04# pwd > > > /usr/local/share/doc/postfix > > > bash-2.04# !gr > > > grep -i mail_spool_directory * > > > bash-2.04# > > > > > > Yeah, I'll count that as "opaque". > > > > apropos postfix > > man 8 local > > > > We'll convert you yet. > > Oh, I've got it running now, but I still think the documentation is weak. That's definitely true. It could really use a complete manual. I know someone who's writing one, to be published by a major house, though. So the docs are on the way. > mail_spool_directory is a configuration file setting that is not mentioned > anywhere in any of the Postfix documentation, and yet the comments in the > sample/default configuration file make it seem quite important. That's untrue! I pointed you to the local(8) man page because the mail_spool_directory parameter is documented there. > I've sent that to Weitse as a documentation bug. Maybe an article about > it in DN would encourage someone to update the docs? ;^) Can you have it ready for April? :) Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter Computing is a terminal addiction. mailto:gsutter@zer0.org http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message