From owner-freebsd-security Wed Aug 15 14: 0: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B21537B409 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:59:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7FKxjh135484; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:59:45 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200108151940.f7FJepc73604@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200108151940.f7FJepc73604@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:59:42 -0400 To: Brian Somers From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 8:40 PM +0100 8/15/01, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Gavin Grabias wrote: > > ... There's an on-going debate about how best to handle this WRT > > sendmail, as local mail delivery is required for some internal > > base system functionality (vi recovery files, cron'd events, etc). > >I'm don't intend to advocate that sendmail be turned off, but it *is* >possible to add > >daily_output=/var/log/daily.log >weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log >monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log > >to /etc/periodic.conf to avoid the periodic mails.... "cron'd events", such as if you add your own cron jobs, cron will email you if the process fails, or output from the process when it succeeds (depending on how you have the job setup). Cron itself expects it can send mail. So does lpd (if a user does 'lpr -m', for instance). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message