Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 02:27:05 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@FreeBSD.org> To: Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jails, cron and sendmail Message-ID: <1097706490.20060827022705@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <44F0E38F.5030809@erdgeist.org> References: <44F0E38F.5030809@erdgeist.org>
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Hello Dirk, Sunday, August 27, 2006, 2:13:03 AM, you wrote: > -----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. check /etc/defaults/periodic.conf > For my jails this would make sense, too: I never read root's mails > locally, anyway. > Am I missing the obvious solution here? > erdgeist -- Best regards, Daniel mailto:danger@FreeBSD.org
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