[wplug-bsd] Periodic -- phantom email -- SOLVED (ish)

[Dan Pelleg]

Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> writes:

> On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> 
> >> Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> >>
> 
> >>> About a month ago I added a new script to my /etc/periodic/security
> >>> directory.  The script looks through the security log for notations
> >>> regarding people updating their IMAP passwords, and it's nothing special.
> >>> It works fine.
> >>
> 
> By disabling and individually re-enabling periodic scripts, I isolated the
> broken script as 150.clean_hoststat -- when that script is disabled,
> periodic no longer generates random broken emails.
> 
> 
> Which begs the question: what does that script do?  A perusal reveals that
> it only runs the command 'purgestat', which exists on my system at
> /usr/sbin/purgestat but has no man page.  The only mention I can find is in
> the sendmail(8) page, where it's mentioned: "If invoked as purgestat,
> sendmail will purge expired entries from the persistent host status
> database."
> 
> 
> This makes circumstantial sense, since the problem coincided with
> substantial modificaitons to my postfix configuration.  But what does
> purgestat do?
> 
> 

This is no direct answer, but I have this in my /etc/periodic.conf
(as advised by the postfix port upon installation):

daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
daily_submit_queuerun="NO"

-- 

  Dan Pelleg