Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:18:11 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Michael Wardle <michael@endbracket.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/35371: /etc/rc virecover script starts sendmail even if sendmail should be off Message-ID: <20020228081811.I66092@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <200202281020.g1SAK2R65822@freefall.freebsd.org>; from michael@endbracket.net on Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:20:02AM -0800 References: <200202281020.g1SAK2R65822@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:20:02AM -0800, Michael Wardle wrote: [snip] > 1) shouldn't we test to see if sendmail is installed before calling it? sendmail(8) always exists in a standard FreeBSD system. > 2) shouldn't it be possible to disable calling "sendmail" (particularly > if ${sendmail_enable} is NO)? Not if you want email to work at all. > 3) is there any reason why we shouldn't call "mail" instead of > "sendmail"? mail(1) invokes sendmail(8) too. > 4) if we're going to call an MTA rather than an MUA, shouldn't we at > least test whether it's already running It doesn't matter if sendmail(8) is running elsewhere on the system as a daemon or not. > 5) shouldn't we call whatever MTA the user has configured (e.g. > sendmail, postfix, exim, qmail)? We are. See mailwrapper(8). > I'd really like to be able to disable the behavior I mentioned in the > original report. I'm not sure what behavior you are describing. Your original report was incorrect. sendmail(8) is not being invoked as a daemon. It is sending local email. It will exit. If you have network problems, it might take a while for this to happen (due to DNS issues). If you would like help in fixing your system so the mail delivery happens more quickly, -questions is a better forum. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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