Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:13:37 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Danny <bchadmin@eagleroaming.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.conf Message-ID: <40894EC1.8030805@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040423170449.M7263@eagleroaming.com> References: <20040423145250.M47348@eagleroaming.com> <40893B80.3040304@potentialtech.com> <20040423170449.M7263@eagleroaming.com>
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[please fix your mail program so it doesn't mangle emails by wrapping lines] Danny wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote > >>Danny wrote: >> >>>Greetings, >>> >>>So I have installed Postfix from the ports, read the pkg-message, read > > the > >>>changing the MTA in the handbook, and did a bit of searching. >>> >>>So after the switch, I obviously get: >>> >>>Apr 23 03:01:00 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2175]: fatal: unsupported: -bh >>>Apr 23 03:01:01 mx1 postfix/sendmail[2176]: fatal: unsupported: -bH >>> >>>Because I did not: >>> >>>"Also, you will want to disable some Sendmail-specific daily maintenance >>>routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file: >>> >>>daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" >>>daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" >>>daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" >>>daily_submit_queuerun="NO"" >>> >>>However, I do not have a periodic.conf. How is the periodic running > > without a > >>>config file? >>> >>>Could someone please show me there periodic.conf file and why they chose > > the > >>>options they did, or maybe baseline. >> >>/etc/defaults/periodic.conf has all the default values for periodic. > > Defaults as a reference, or the defaults that are currently enforced even > without /etc/periodic.conf? Both. The default values _could_ be hardcoded into the periodic program but there are good reasons not to do this. The most notable is that it's much easier for the average sysadmin to look in /etc/defaults/* to see what default values are than to look through program code. The reason you don't want to edit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf is that upgrading FreeBSD will upgrade /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, but won't change /etc/periodic.conf. That way, if new config options are added or the default values are changed, you get the updates without messing up the settings that each admin changed. >> You should _NOT_ endit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf ... the point is >>that /etc/periodic.conf overrides those defaults. > > So, in theory, IF (which I won't, don't worry) I did edit > the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, and disabled the postfix & sendmail > specified settings, those changes would be enforced even without > a /etc/periodic.conf? Yes, that would happen. Then, when you upgrade to 4.10, you'll lose your changes. If you create /etc/periodic.conf and put your override values in there, upgrading won't reset your config, but it will add new values as needed and change any defaults to match new changes in 4.10. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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