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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