Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:10:58 -0700 From: jekillen <jekillen@prodigy.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Periodic.conf? Message-ID: <4155bee38d717a99750b407b2aeab2e0@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <20071025054530.B192.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <435060d02e5bb953e1c9413c623d2564@prodigy.net> <20071025054530.B192.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
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On Oct 25, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Gerard wrote: > On October 24, 2007 at 09:50PM jekillen wrote: > > >> The following was a response to a query I posted regarding how to >> switch over to Postfix from SendMail: >> >> Also, there are some periodic things that are ran which are SendMail >> specific that need to be disabled. That is done within >> /etc/periodic.conf as >> such: >> >> daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" >> daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" >> daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" >> daily_submit_queuerun="NO" >> >> However, there is no periodic.conf on my system: >> v6.2. There is a periodic directory with specific >> subdirectories. One is 'daily' but I do not know >> which one would have the above entries. > > Create the /etc/periodic.conf file and populate it with the correct > information. > >> When I installed the OS, I had it include the >> Postfix package when sysinstall queried for >> package choices. >> I want to set this machine up as a hub mail server >> for four web sites on four separate machines that >> are connected via inside network. I have not dealt >> with e-mail related software in general and Postfix >> or Sendmail specifically. Since I brought in Postfix >> as a package, I am afraid of trying to install it from >> Ports for complications, unless ports will account >> for that. > > You could delete the package and then install it from ports. > >> There were also advices to place several entries >> in rc.conf to disable SendMail. There are no entries >> either for SendMail, not Postfix there to begin with >> in rc.conf. > > You have to add them. Please read /usr/ports/mail/postfix/pkg-message > for > further details. That is the last stable version of Postfix, by the > way. The > beta version is under 'postix-current'. You should also check out: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail- > changingmta.html > > for further details. > >> >> In mailer.conf I was told it should look like this: >> sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail >> >> There were two other entries, hoststat and >> purgstat. Should these be kept, modified >> or eliminated? >> > If you install Postfix from the ports system, it will offer to make > these > modifications for you. See my above comment. > > Thank you for the data; Much appreciated Jeff k
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