How to stop postmaster and postgres process

[Anish Nayyar]

Hi,
I want to kill the postmaster process. I killed it using command kill -9 . But after 2 to 3 minutes it is again visible . How could I stop it forever, so that even after a reboot it didn't get started.

[Dennis Handly]

Are you talking about sendmail?
/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

To stop it on reboot you have to change the /etc/rc.config.d/*mail* file.

[Anish Nayyar]

This is not working...
My problem is related to process

/opt/sfmdb/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D /var/opt/sfmdb/pgsql

[Dennis Handly]

>I want to kill the postmaster process.

I should have asked why?
This seems like some diagnostic process "SFM". Perhaps you should get some patches for that or disable that.

[Anish Nayyar]

I want to kill the postmaster process because I don't want to run some unwanted processes on my machine.

[Dennis Handly]

>I want to kill the postmaster process because I don't want to run some unwanted processes

If you don't care about your hardware reliability, I suppose you can swremove or unconfigure the diagnostic demons.