Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:10:19 -0500 From: "Russell E. Meek" <rmeek@russellmeek.net> To: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Completely disable sendmail Message-ID: <43A116DB.8090608@russellmeek.net> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0512141659i54aeabd7sd0d8b63edfc5ff7c@mail.gmail.com> References: <e572718c0512141659i54aeabd7sd0d8b63edfc5ff7c@mail.gmail.com>
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Pietro Cerutti wrote: >Hi list, >before someone begins to flame me, I'll tell you that I'm running >6.0-STABLE and that my rc.conf contains: > >sendmail_enable="NO" >sendmail_submit_enable="NO" >sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" >sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > >In my crontab there is a job which runs every hour, and prints one >line as output. >This output should be mailed to me, but since I disabled sendmail, I >guess it should get lost (which is what I'd want). >Anyway, lost or not, I don't want to have it mailed to me, nor I want >sendmail to bug my ttyv0 with such messages: > >sendmail[<pid>] My unqualified host name [<my host name>] unknown. >Sleeping for retry >sendmail[<pid>] unable to qualify my own domain name (<my host name>) >-- using short name > >My box is not a part of a domain, so the errors are justified, but >this shows that sendmail is not completely disabled on my system... > >Now, I could solve this by redirecting the output of my job to >/dev/null, but I don't see it as a smart solution. > >Any ideas? > >Thanx! > >-- >Pietro Cerutti ><pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> > >Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal ><www.beansidhe.ch> > >Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" >Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" >FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Pietro, *sendmail_enable="NONE"* in your rc.conf will shutdown Sendmail completely and globally. Thanks, Russell E, Meek
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