Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:05:47 am Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at 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