[OpenIndiana-discuss] mailhost and other "standard" hostnames

[Rob Shinn]

Well, Solaris also used to have rsh and telnet enabled by default. See what
I mean?
On Nov 10, 2012 9:10 AM, "Jim Klimov" <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2012-11-10 10:22, Roel_D wrote:
>
>> Disabling sendmail as a standard would be nicer. Setting up a zone that
>> complains about a misconfigured sendmail from the first boot on is a real
>> pain to first users.
>>
>
>
> That's arguable (backwards incompatible vs. expectations, at least)
> and may be solved with some filters for IPS on "what comprises YOUR
> minimal zone".
>
> A zone often runs some tasks, at least the cron scheduler, which
> feel the urge to post messages, even if only into a local mailbox
> for root (or to a common diags user on a server, if so pointed by
> the /etc/mail/aliases file). Granted, this does not need sendmail
> server, at least not the full-blown one listening on "*:25", but
> needs sendmail-client service or a "localhost:25" listener (or both?)
>
> Improper networking setup (lack of FQDN in /etc/hosts, which is what
> the fresh zone's sendmail usually complains about) can be disregarded
> or trivially fixed in the hosts-file.
>
> Anyhow, from me this started as a question about something that long
> ago "used to be there" and now it's gone; we here bring it back manually
> and wouldn't mind an easy way to bring it in automatically. Perhaps,
> we need to make some local IPS repo with our default config packages...
>
> //Jim
>
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