Janne wrote:
> Martin Hepworth wrote:
>
>>Jan Rockstedt wrote:
>>
>>>Terry wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Jan Rockstedt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Hi all!
>>>>>
>>>>>I have problem with exim, on a Freebsd 5.3.
>>>>>I can start exim with no problem, the error is from a bootup.
>>>>>exim abandoned: unknown
>>>>>
>>>>>This is also from the daily run script:
>>>>>Removing stale entries from sendmail host status cache:
>>>>>exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bH
>>>>>
>>>>># more /etc/rc.conf
>>>>>sendmail_enable="NO"
>>>>>sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
>>>>>exim_enable="YES"
>>>>>
>>>>>I have seartch all my files after /usr/lib/sendmail -bz
>>>>>
>>>>>I have seen the
>>>>>http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/FAQ.html#TOC47
>>>>>
>>>>>Any sugestion to ger rid of the error msg?
>>>>>
>>>>>//Jan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Should it not be sendmail_enable="NONE"
>>>>
>>>>Terry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Nope it should be sendmail_enable="NO" in freebsd 5.3
>>>The defaulr rc.conf say NO
>>>
>>>//Jan
>>>
>>
>>Jan
>>
>>that's as maybe, but in order to turn off sendmail completely you need
>>to set this to NONE.
>>
>>I have this set on my 5.3 machine and it works fine.
>
>
> Terry and Martin.
> Thanks.!!!!
>
> My error msg is gone.:-)
>
> //Jan
>
>
I could be wrong here, but, as I understand it:
'sendmail_enable="NO"' prevents starting sendmail as a daemon at
boot-time. But only then.
'sendmail_enable="NONE"' does that too, but *also* prevents chron and
other things from calling sendmail to send out reports and such.
- Which is why you need "NONE" .... *and* presuming you do still want
security and log reports emailed off-box) should also insure that Exim
has been 'hooked in' to replace sendmail calls for those. (In the docs...).
Otherwise the box goes quiet, error messages accumulate, and a queue
(that Exim doesn't even look at) can be polluted with the failed
status/report messages.
FWIW....
Bill Hacker
