From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 21 22:15: 8 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1131237B71B; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA94033; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2M6AHH22618; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:10:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200103220610.f2M6AHH22618@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab In-Reply-To: <200102150134.f1F1Ybl01737@freefall.freebsd.org> "from Peter Wemm at Feb 14, 2001 05:34:37 pm" To: Peter Wemm Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:10:17 -0800 (PST) Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: > Modified files: > etc crontab > Log: > Manually run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q once a day. Folks seem to be too > trigger happy and turn off sendmail_enable entirely (instead of setting > sendmail_flags to -q30m instead). I have seen boxes with things like daily > run reports that have sat in mailq for 5 months. Since /usr/sbin/sendmail IMHO that's evidence that there is a user interface problem. Lots of times you have a machine where you just want to disable email entirely (example: test machine sitting on a test network).. people think that sendmail_enable="NO" is the way to do this. Perhaps there should be an email_enable="NO" knob that disables sendmail and the emails from the daily/weekly/monthly runs. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message