Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 15:51:46 -0400 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Erin Fortenberry <efortenb@sdccd.cc.ca.us> Cc: "'Fred Condo'" <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>, "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <3B6B00D2.5080900@magpage.com> References: <BBDEEDD2EB67D311A0240008C74B9345129C5E@ntxmidcity.sdccd.cc.ca.us>
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Erin Fortenberry wrote: > My goal is for sendmail to not listen to anyports, only on lo0 if needed. > This machine is a web server and I keep getting people attaching to ports 25 > to try and relay email. I could just block the port, but I would think > sendmail could be configured to shut off the port itself. > > ok, add this line to /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" and add this line to roots crontab: 0,30 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -q this will effectivly disable the sendmail daemon(making port 25 unreachable) and cron will fire up sendmail every 30 minutes to process the queue. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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