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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:13:01 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running
Message-ID:  <4ad871310903171713v70032ccfxe0adcfc895459896@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49C03BB7.1040009@ibctech.ca>
References:  <49C03BB7.1040009@ibctech.ca>

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Taking the questions regarding my routing boxes one step further, I have
> strict rules that allow only certain control and management protocols to
> communicate on the network.
>
> Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous
> messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent.
>
> Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic script that
> tries to send out email (given a standard install), and/or how to
> disable this?
>
> Or, is there a way to completely cripple a FreeBSD machine, so the
> system actually realizes that it can not send any email, and everything
> it tries to send email will realize this? (preferably a more subtle
> approach than simply rm'ing the sendmail binary :)
>

echo 'sendmail_enable="NONE"' >> /etc/rc.conf

-- 
Glen Barber



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