Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 20:00:12 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), wes@softweyr.com (Wes Peters), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real-time alarms Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.19990919195722.047b2e20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199909200154.SAA56892@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <4.2.0.58.19990919175752.04577a20@localhost>
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At 06:54 PM 9/19/99 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >And you surely don't want you notification mechanism to be a something >that lives in that ``outer permiter'' now do you. That is where e-mail, >particularly sendmail, lives. Who says that the agent that sends the notifications needs to go through sendmail? (It's pretty trivial to do SMTP directly.) Or that sendmail should be in the outer perimeter? (It's a good idea to sandbox sendmail and BIND; I believe that OpenBSD does this to both by default now.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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