Stop all manner of periodic scripts from running

[Chuck Swiger]

On Mar 17, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Although SMTP is denied, I just realized that there are numerous
> messages from periodic scripts that are queued up that can't be sent.
>
> Can someone advise how to find out each and every periodic script that
> tries to send out email (given a standard install), and/or how to
> disable this?

Besides the answer to disable sendmail listening on localhost,  
consider the following to /etc/periodic.conf:

daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck