Peter Schultz wrote:Why not just have these logged by default instead? Like /var/log/daily, and whatnot. Anyone with half a care about this stuff can easily make their own modifications, those who don't care will never know the difference.
Hi,
I hope that core will approve removing sendmail from FreeBSD-CURRENT.
I'm pretty sure they will, just as soon as someone provides patches to make installed base system components like sendmail into "preinstalled packages", and then steps up and makes some other MTA and MSA able to be installed by default instead, so that things like "/etc/daily", "/etc/weekly", and so on can still send an email to the local "root" user upon completion.
On a simple installation where the user is careless, these e-mails are spamming roots mailbox. Imagine the hundreds if not thousands of ignored messages.
PS: This comes up every time a sendmail CERT advisory happens, but then no one provides the necessary patches to make email continue to work with sendmail deinstalled, or the package files to allow it to be deinstalled and replaces easily.
I'm sorry for beating a dead horse. A guy and I from tcbug were just trying to fix his postfix installation, he does not know what happened, it just stopped working. There would not have been a problem if sendmail wasn't tied into the system so closely. I'm just hoping core will say, "submit a working solution and it will be done," so that there's a little inspiration here.
Pete...
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