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Date:      Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:07:10 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.net>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/41012: /etc/periodic/daily/440.status-mailq assumes sendmail
Message-ID:  <20020730150710.GA382@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3D46A85A.8090609@mukappabeta.net>
References:  <200207290740.g6T7e31g091006@freefall.freebsd.org> <3D454B81.2050405@mukappabeta.de> <20020730071817.GC2549@straylight.oblivion.bg> <3D46A85A.8090609@mukappabeta.net>

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On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:53:14PM +0200, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Peter Pentchev wrote:
>=20
> >I think the currently available periodic scripts are tailored for
> >a default installation; that is, they make it so a novice user reaps
> >all the benefits of the software installed with the system (with Sendmail
> >as the default MTA) with no need to tweak any knobs.  Administrators
> >who install other MTA's should arguably be prepared to tweak the system
> >startup scripts a bit :)
> >
> >=20
> >
> Yah well.  One might also argue that the relevant port install procedure=
=20
> could spit
> out a message about which scripts or configs the administrator ought to=
=20
> have an eye
> on...  this falls into the port's maintainer's domain, though.  Although=
=20
> I'm still convinced
> that the system scripts should be rather spartanic than over-featured.

And then again.. the default scripts, with the default settings, *are*
indeed spartan.  The way I read the 440.status-mailq script, the -Ac
parameters are *only* passed when the daily_status_mailq_shorten
variable is set to 'YES'.  The default value for that variable is 'NO',
so the default for the status-mailq script would be to invoke mailq with
absolutely no parameters, which should be compatible with all MTA's.
The reason you are seeing that problem is that you have tweaked the
default settings by explicitly requesting shortened mailq output :)

G'luck,
Peter

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