From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 10:18:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78D9D16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:18:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from typhoon.he.net (typhoon.he.net [64.62.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B8F7843FBF for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:18:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from bsd ([63.204.157.14]) by typhoon.he.net for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:18:35 -0800 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:21:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-X-Sender: bill@bsd.billschoolcraft.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031126111107.X94029@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> System-ID: [en] (I; FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0 x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:18:41 -0000 Hello Family, I recently whacked the default outgoing mail process on my FreeBSD-4.8 system and could no longer send mail with Pine using "localhost" although I could in fact send mail with the command: mail -s "mail test" bill@mydomain.com So I went into /usr/ports/postfix-current and did an install and at the end the instructions were to add the following to /etc/rc.conf #################################################### sendmail_enable="YES" sendmail_flags="-bd" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" #################################################### Now, I see basicall the command of `sendmail -bd` nested in the above settings but I'm not quite sure about the other three. In other words, how would you correctly "source" the /etc/rc.conf file if you can at all or is this file only meant to be referenced at boot time? Thanks -- |<----------------------"Word-Wrap-At-72-Please"---------------------->| Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v