I can't disable cron and mail logs

kerogaz

kerogaz

I wrote in rc.conf
cron_log="NO"
sendmail_enable="NO"
But the cron and mail logs are still huge and completely unnecessary.
 
But the rinetd logs aren't showing up, even though I've specified the following in /usr/local/etc/rinetd.conf:
logfile /var/log/rinetd.log

More precisely, they appear only after a complete reboot of the system, but they are past ones, and to view the current logs you need to reboot the system again.
 
balanga said:
sendmail_enable="NONE"
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Post in thread 'Disable sendmail: NO or NONE'

Made me look ...

The canonical answer is: If you look at /etc/rc.subr, you see that you can use "NO" in any mixture of upper and lower case (so "nO" and "No" would be valid, but ugly and a bad idea), as well as "false" and "off" (again in any case). And for "yes", you can also use "true" and "on".

In the case of sendmail, please look at /etc/rc.d/sendmail. Right at the top, if you set the variable sendmail_enable to "none" (in lower or upper case), then it gets automatically changed to "no". So it seems that you are not the first person to ask this question, and because others have...
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kerogaz said:
I wrote in rc.conf
cron_log="NO"
sendmail_enable="NO"
But the cron and mail logs are still huge and completely unnecessary.
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Are you using sendmail compiled from ports?
In my experience, to reliably disable the default sendmail, you need to say the following:
Code: 
sendmail_enable="NO"            # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO).
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"     # Start a localhost-only MTA for mail submission
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"   # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO).
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"  # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO).
 
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