topic Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot? in Operating System - HP-UX

how to stop sendmail at system boot?

youbojun — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:52:56 GMT

I have installed Domino in hpunix11.0, Now I find that sendmail of hpunix conflict with sendmail server of Domino.So I want stop sendmail and don't let it boot when system reboot. How can I do ?

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

Rainer von Bongartz — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:58:17 GMT

simply remove file /sbin/init.d/sendmail

Regards
Rainer

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

twang — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:02:49 GMT

edit /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs to:
SENDMAIL=0

#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

then, try to send mail again, see if it disabled?

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

Massimo Bianchi — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:03:03 GMT

Put a nice "0" in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

root@MY_BIG_SERVER:(rc.config.d)# more mailservs
#########################################
# Mail configuration. See sendmail(1m) #
#########################################
#
# BSD's popular message handling system
#
# SENDMAIL_SERVER: Set to 1 if this is a mail server and should
# run the sendmail deamon.
# SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME: If this is not a mail server, but a client being
# served by another system, then set this variable
# to the name of the mail server system name so that
# site hiding can be performed.
#
export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1
export SENDMAIL_SERVER_NAME=

Massimo

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

RolandH — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:27:30 GMT

1.
/usr/sbin/ch_rc -a -p SENDMAIL_SERVER="0"

2.
# /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

3.
Check if sendmail is still running.

# ps -ef | grep sendmail

Otherwise kill the sendmail process.
# /usr/sbin/killsm
Now sendmail is disabled to run as mail server but it will still be used as client programm to send mail to a server if you use programms like mailx or mail.

Regards
Roland

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

Rajeev Shukla — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:49:48 GMT

edit the /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and make export SENDMAIL_SERVER=0
and the next time when you boot the server the sendmail wont start.

Rajeev

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

Fragon — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:29:09 GMT

Hi,
Modify /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs is the best one!
You also can remove the system start-up script in /sbin/rc2.d , that's typically like "S***sendmail"!

Manually stop the Sendmail service by:
#/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop

-ux

Re: how to stop sendmail at system boot?

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:48:56 GMT

Deleting the binary will cause an error on boot.

Changing /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs file will still allow users to fire up and use sendmail to get mail off the box.

So it depends on the actual goal, what you should do. If you never want sendmail to run, you need to do both. If its temporary, and you can tolerate users running the program, then /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs modification shown by my peers is good enough.

SEP