sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled

[rank1seeker at gmail.com]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown at ru.ac.za>
To: freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:52:25 +0200
Subject: Re: sendmail disabled, but 'service -e' lists it as enabled

> On Wednesday 25 April 2012 20:56:22 Greg Larkin wrote:
> > On 4/25/12 2:09 PM, rank1seeker at gmail.com wrote:
> > > # grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable="NONE" # service -e |
> > > grep sendmail /etc/rc.d/sendmail # ps -U root | grep sendmail
> >
> > /etc/rc.d/sendmail explicitly sets some variables to "NO" when
> > sendmail_enable is "NONE".  Unfortunately, the service script does not
> > take that into account, so if you want it to report correctly, place
> > these lines in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> > sendmail_enable="NONE"
> > sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
> > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> 
> And in fact man 8 rc.sendmail says (under sendmail_enable in the RC.CONF 
> VARIABLES section):
> 
> The ``NONE'' option is deprecated and should not be used.  It will be 
removed 
> in a future release.
> 
> and later in the manpage:
> 
> To completely prevent any sendmail(8) daemons from starting, you must set 
the 
> following variables in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
>            sendmail_enable="NO"
>            sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
>            sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
>            sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
> 
> Jonathan


I've thought NONE was a new, advanced form, which saves 4 lines of NO
It ended up being deprecated one.

Setting them all to NO, doesn't confuse 'service -e' anymore.
Thx!


Domagoj