Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:16:43 +1200 (New Zealand Standard Time) From: Juha Saarinen <juha@saarinen.org> To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NO_SENDMAIL Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.44.0209051414220.1300-100000@den2> In-Reply-To: <1031191858.24794.127.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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On 4 Sep 2002, Joe Kelsey wrote: > In addition to setting > > NO_SENDMAIL=true > > in /etc/make.conf, you also need to remove the ability to create > sendmail. I used to have the following in /usr/sup/refuse: > > *sendmail* > > which *used* to be quite effective at keeping all traces of sendmail out > of my system. Unfortunately, some misguided soul decided that it wasn't > enough to simply passively refuse sendmail. They *forced* the inclusion > of /etc/sendmail.rc in the system startup and also refused to protect > the inclusion of this idiotic file with the usual .ifdef NO_SENDMAIL > that populates the rest of the make system. So, now I have to allow the > presence of this file in my source tree, but I still consistently refuse > to allow mergemaster to move it in place, since it has no business > appearing on a non-sendmail system. I am now forced to use the > following rules in /usr/sup/refuse: > > */sendmail* > */etc/mtree/*sendmail* > */share/doc/*sendmail* Does that get rid of the 'mailnull' and 'smmsp' users too? -- Juha Saarinen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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