From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 23 10:17:00 2004 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 260E416A4E3 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:17:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F245B43D60 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i3NHGvaD005156; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.1.193] (nfw2.codefab.com [199.103.21.225] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0)i3NHGu3Z017803; Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:16:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20040423170449.M7263@eagleroaming.com> References: <20040423145250.M47348@eagleroaming.com> <40893B80.3040304@potentialtech.com> <20040423170449.M7263@eagleroaming.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0296CED3-954A-11D8-90F9-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 13:16:51 -0400 To: Danny X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: 4.9R changing MTA to Postfix - no periodic.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: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 17:17:00 -0000 On Apr 23, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Danny wrote: > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:51:28 -0400, Bill Moran wrote >> /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? Yes, to both. The two aren't exclusive. >> 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? Sure. But your changes might get blown away the next time you updated the system and ran mergemaster, unless you were careful. Putting the changes in /etc/periodic.conf is the right thing to do... -- -Chuck