[geeks] disabling sendmail on NetBSD

[Jochen Kunz]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:22:22AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> 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 off in the sense that is not running in daemon mode
for listening on TCP port 25...

> 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
Look at the time. It is output from the daily cron job that is mailed
to root. This invokes sendmail for local delivery.
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         Jochen

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