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From: taob@zot.io.org (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: A Serious article for the FreeBSD support group
Date: 24 Jun 1996 01:44:24 -0400
Organization: Internex Online Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Message-ID: <4ql9vo$kl9@zot.io.org>
References: <4qcqts$t61@tzlink.j51.com> <31CB150C.4E191FC9@lambert.org> <4qkrlj$d4h@tzlink.j51.com>
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In article <4qkrlj$d4h@tzlink.j51.com>, k <landau@yu1.yu.edu> wrote:
>
> Furthermore, let's say that I did not intend to have my machine on a
> network, why is there no documetation about how to stop this procees
> from polling for the mail server each evening?
You didn't say what the error messages on your screen say, so I'm
only guessing here. Do a "ps ax | grep sendmail" to see what sendmail
is doing, or "cat /var/run/sendmail.pid" for equivalent information.
Then "man sendmail" to learn the meaning of those flags (likely "-bd"
and "-q30m"). Then study the /etc/sysconfig file. You might also
want to study the /etc/*ly scripts for some insight on what your
system will do during it's daily, weekly and monthly maintenance
routines.
UNIX isn't like DOS or Windows... it assumes you know what you are
doing, and is much less forgiving if you don't. Most of it is
documented, but for the bits that aren't, you'll have to do some
digging yourself to get the answers.
--
Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"