Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:58:29 -0700 (PDT) From: John Von Essen <essenz@essenz.com> To: <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: question about rc.sendmail implementation... Message-ID: <20030620123418.L47984-100000@beck.quonix.net>
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I am unclear why rc.sendmail works the way it works. For instance, in my rc.conf I have the following: sendmail_enable="YES" sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m" sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m" Note: I am not running the localhost submission agent and its related clientmqueue cleaner. (Dont ask... I have my reasons for not running msp) Now, if I do NOT use "/etc/mail/Makefile" to start the above config and instead just ran the above commands and flags manually, I would have the following two processes running on my system: root 41975 ... 0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) root 41978 ... 0:00.01 sendmail: Queue runner@00:30:00 for /var/spool/mqueue Now, if use mail/Makefile with "make start" and I have the above config in rc.conf then I only see one process running: root 41975 ... 0:00.01 sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) It is pretty obvious why this occurs, rc.sendmail has no routine for handling the sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" entry from rc.conf. What I dont understand is, why is this so? Why would it exist in rc.conf if nothing in rc.sendmail handles it? In my case, I simply modified mail/Makefile and rc.sendmail and added a start-mqueue/start_mqueue (and a stop-mqueue/stop_mqueue) routine that would parse the outbound entry from rc.conf. Just curious as to why this is not the default? -John
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