From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 18 00:52:00 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FF4106566B for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout011.mac.com (asmtpout011.mac.com [17.148.16.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B31C48FC12 for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.227.140.124]) by asmtp011.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KGO00BXYFQAMCA0@asmtp011.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:51:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: From: Chuck Swiger To: Steve Bertrand In-reply-to: <49C03BB7.1040009@ibctech.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:51:46 -0700 References: <49C03BB7.1040009@ibctech.ca> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Questions" Subject: Re: Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:52:01 -0000 On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > 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? Besides the answer to disable sendmail listening on localhost, consider the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" Regards, -- -Chuck