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authorbarner <barner@FreeBSD.org>2005-05-20 19:43:18 +0800
committerbarner <barner@FreeBSD.org>2005-05-20 19:43:18 +0800
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- Add instructions for /etc/rc.conf that make
`/etc/rc.d/sendmail stop' stop the postfix mail system. [1] - Re-phrased a paragraph to be more clear. [2] Submitted by: shige [1], maintainer [2] Approved by: maintainer [1] PR: ports/81245 [1]
Diffstat (limited to 'mail/postfix')
-rw-r--r--mail/postfix/pkg-message9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mail/postfix/pkg-message b/mail/postfix/pkg-message
index c9b85fc8c365..627f09acb825 100644
--- a/mail/postfix/pkg-message
+++ b/mail/postfix/pkg-message
@@ -5,11 +5,14 @@ please set these variables in your /etc/rc.conf file:
sendmail_enable="YES"
sendmail_flags="-bd"
sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid"
+sendmail_procname="/usr/local/libexec/postfix/master"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
-This will disable Sendmail completely.
+This will disable Sendmail completely, and allow you to use /etc/rc.d/sendmail
+to start and stop postfix (FreeBSD 5.x and up). For FreeBSD 4.x, it will just
+cause the system boot scripts to start sendmail for you.
Alternatively to the above settings, you can enable postfix to start with
the other local services, for example, after your database server starts if
@@ -23,8 +26,8 @@ cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/postfix postfix.sh
-Also, you will want to disable some Sendmail-specific daily maintenance
-routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file:
+With either startup configuration, you will want to disable some
+Sendmail-specific daily maintenance routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file:
daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"