sendmail_enable="NO"

[Doug Barton]

Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> First, rc.conf and periodic.conf are totally separate, so having just one
>> knob for both isn't practical now, but might be an interesting project down
>> the road. Second, IIRC the first implementation of sendmail_enable=no did
>> actually disable all of sendmail, but since people could not send mail
>> locally that turned out to be a POLA violation itself, so the current
>> two-stage system was developed. It's impossible to make everyone happy here,
>> so I think the current system is a reasonable compromise.
> 
> No, you can still have *one* overriding knob to turn off
> everything.  If folks want to enable/disable different
> parts of sendmail, they can do that with the other knobs.
> POLA says the one overriding sendmail knob should be
> sendmail_enable.

Well, I certainly understand your perspective, although I'm not sure I 
agree. Feel free to create a patch that does what you want it to do, and 
send it to freebsd-rc@ and gshapiro@ for review, and we'll see what others 
have to say about it.

Doug

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