From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 23 22:40:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496DA37B424 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13d4am-0000oK-00; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:44:48 -0600 Message-ID: <39CD94D0.693C453C@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:44:48 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Brett Glass , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?) References: <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921113652.053d4960@localhost> <20000921210521.A17973@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA8E45.7DA45048@softweyr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921182152.046d6ee0@localhost> <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000922221024.F367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Crist J . Clark" wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:34:46AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > [snip] > > > email clients use sendmail to send mail. If sendmail isn't running, it > > doesn't queue. We'll just lose that mail to a black hole. That isn't > > obvious. > > sendmail does queue unsent mail. It is not lost. The queue can be > processed manually (or from a crontab) by running, > > $ sendmail -q And periodically, without accepting incoming mail, with -q30m. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message