how do I see security logs without turning on sendmail?

[Wasp King]

Thanks. this seem to work for me!

--- Lane <lane at joeandlane.com> wrote:
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> IIRC, sendmail has three controlling values in
> /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_enable="NO"
> and
> sendmail_enable="NONE"
> 
> The third value, "NONE," causes the boot process to
> ignore any attempt to 
> start sendmail.
> 
> The second value, "NO," causes the boot process to
> start sendmail for "local 
> delivery, only" (i.e. do NOT accept inbound
> connections from external hosts).
> 
> The first value, "YES," causes the boot process to
> start sendmail for outgoing 
> and incoming SMTP connections.
> 
> There are many "tweaks" that you can use in
> /etc/rc.conf - (refer 
> to /etc/defaults/rc.conf) - that will allow various
> flavors of sendmail 
> usage.  See also, /etc/rc.sendmail.
> 
> In your case sendmail_enable="NO" should allow the
> local system to 
> send "periodic" information to root at localhost, or
> whatever alias you use 
> in /etc/mail/aliases, while disallowing external
> hosts from sending email by 
> way of the local host.  Note that this requires that
> you pay heed 
> to /etc/mail/Makefile and associated README
> documentation 
> in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail and below.
> 
> Best of luck!
> 
> 
> lane
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