Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:59:42 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf Message-ID: <p0510100cb7a09144a1c3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <200108151940.f7FJepc73604@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <200108151940.f7FJepc73604@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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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
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