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From: Ragnar Beer <rbeer@uni-goettingen.de>
Subject: cron and sendmail
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Howdy!

I just learned (better late than never ;) that even if I have 
disabled sendmail as a daemon with "sendmail_enable=NO" in 
/etc/rc.conf the program still gets executed periodically by crond 
and the /etc/periodic scripts. Are there any related security issues 
that I need to take care of?

Ragnar


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