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Date:      Sat, 13 Nov 1999 13:13:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net>
To:        Kai Voigt <k@123.org>
Cc:        Herbert Chang <zhang_huabin@hotmail.com>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to disable sendmail on autoboot?
Message-ID:  <14381.54396.208737.822334@guru.phone.net>
In-Reply-To: <19991113132247.E54046@abc.123.org>
References:  <19991113122042.86314.qmail@hotmail.com> <19991113132247.E54046@abc.123.org>

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Kai Voigt writes:
;->Herbert Chang wrote:
;->> When FreeBSD boot, default it will start sendmail.
;->> How to disable this?
;->% grep sendmail /etc/defaults/rc.conf
;->sendmail_enable="YES"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
;->sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (if enabled)
;->So, just add
;->sendmail_enable="NO"   # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO).
;->to your /etc/rc.conf file.

You might also consider adding NO_SENDMAIL=true to
/etc/make.conf. This will prevent system builds from installing
sendmail at all.

	<mike



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