On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:05:47 am Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Steve Grubb
<sgrubb(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> We ran into a problem doing the LSPP evaluation with regards to email. Of
> all the packages listed, the only one that really mattered for security
> was cron. So, what we did was patched cron to be able to take an
> argument, -m, to define the mail delivery agent. It could be a shell
> script, procmail, or anything you wanted to take the cron output and move
> it into the local spool dir. Would using this solve the problems being
> debated here? (And since cron can take a mail agent argument, it should
> not have a hard requirement for sendmail.)
How would you expose the option to use the argument for a local admin?
In /etc/sysconfig/crond, there is the CRONDARGS variable where it can be set.
-Steve