[geeks] disabling sendmail on NetBSD

[Will Mc Donald]

I don't really know BSD yet, must get myself a box running it but how about
just doing...

# grep sendmail /etc/*/*

... and seeing what references sendmail?

Will.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua D Boyd" <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 8:22 AM
Subject: [geeks] disabling sendmail on NetBSD


> I saw that this question was asked before in some google caches, but the
> previous answer isn't working for me.
>
> The previous answer said to remove sendmail from rc.conf.  Well, rc.conf
> doesn't make any references to sendmail, but it does refer to
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf, which indicates that sendmail defaults to off, yet
> sendmail is spitting out errors on my console so it obviously ain't off.
>
> Feb 14 03:22:55 twilight sendmail[5674]: My unqualified host name
(twilight) unknown; sleeping for retry
>
> That is what the errors read.  Not sure what it means, other than that
sendmail
> is running, which is bad since this machine is supposed to be a firewall.