From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 19:46:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E74116A41F; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:46:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.ntplx.net (mail.ntplx.net [204.213.176.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3632D43D64; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:46:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from deischen@freebsd.org) Received: from sea.ntplx.net (sea.ntplx.net [204.213.176.11]) by mail.ntplx.net (8.13.5/8.13.5/NETPLEX) with ESMTP id k03JkUKi003034; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:46:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:46:29 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen X-X-Sender: eischen@sea.ntplx.net To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <43BAD3AB.302@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS and Clam AntiVirus (mail.ntplx.net) Cc: Vivek Khera , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail_enable="NO" X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Eischen List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:46:32 -0000 On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Doug Barton wrote: > First, rc.conf and periodic.conf are totally separate, so having just one > knob for both isn't practical now, but might be an interesting project down > the road. Second, IIRC the first implementation of sendmail_enable=no did > actually disable all of sendmail, but since people could not send mail > locally that turned out to be a POLA violation itself, so the current > two-stage system was developed. It's impossible to make everyone happy here, > so I think the current system is a reasonable compromise. No, you can still have *one* overriding knob to turn off everything. If folks want to enable/disable different parts of sendmail, they can do that with the other knobs. POLA says the one overriding sendmail knob should be sendmail_enable. -- DE