jails, cron and sendmail

[Oleg D.]

Dirk Engling wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
>> Except some of the things run from cron want to send mail all on their
>> own, so fixing cron won't solve your problem.
>>
>> Why are you running cron inside the jails at all? Are you letting your
>> users run it? If not, can you disable it, and instead run scripts from
>> your real crontab that do the appropriate thigns in each jail?
> 
> It's not me, it's the OS running cron to do its periodic checks, per 
> default. But Daniel Gerzo already pointed out, how to solve that.
> 
> Still: FreeBSD's /etc/ assumes and provides a working mail subsystem in 
> its default configuration. That exposes sendmail to the publicly visible 
> IP address. Shutting the mail sub system off causes trouble.
> 
> I hope, that describes my motivation to bring up the topic.
> 
>   erdgeist

0. Is it possible to fix your MTA config to make it ``deliver'' for 
``root'' or ``postmaster'' to /dev/null?

1. Is it possible to make changes in /etc/crontab for all jails on 
machine? And place the same *blank* /etc/crontab for new jails that are 
going to be created as a template?


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Oleg D.

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