"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
> Happens for me, and if you look, /usr/src/etc/crontab is indeed
> running "daily", and daily does indeed run the security script. Maybe
> it is the fact that your mail is broken that is causing you not to see
> it.
> 
Yes, the details I sent were for the failed delivery of daily security 
script.  As I said, mail not working in default install.


> > man afterboot says:
> >   "NetBSD ships with a default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file that will work
> >   for simple installations;"
> >
> > Nope, not working.  Spool files show:
> 
> Are you sure you have sendmail running right in addition? The .cf file
> might be sufficient for your needs but you still need to set up your
> rc.conf file correctly to make sendmail run etc.
> 
I didn't tamper with rc.conf, after all, I didn't want to receive mail, 
just expected it to send locally.  

I'd always thought OpenBSD was pretty battened down, but this is 
excessive!


Robert Elz wrote:
> 
> Is sendmail enabled (in rc.conf).   By default on a NetBSD install, just
> about nothing is turned on.  Sendmail certainly isn't on by default
> (though that shouldn't affect local mail, which is what the daily security
> report should be ... or perhaps now it will, with the new sendmail
> submission method, where mail goes from one process to another).
> 
I agree that it shouldn't affect local mail.  And I have no clear idea 
on how to turn it on without receiving outside mail.  Suggestion?


> Never occurred to me, I just enable sendmail as one of my first actions
> (long time before /etc/daily gets a chance to run).
> 

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