topic Re: SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME in Operating System - HP-UX

SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

Arun Jain — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:12:35 GMT

Dear all,

I am facing a problem in a server at the boot time. The server boot process get stuck at the sendmail service option.

If I want to stop the service or daemon for the same, what should I do and which services/daemon I should stop.

Regards:
Arun Jain

Re: SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

Tim Nelson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:15:46 GMT

edit /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs and change SENDMAIL_SERVER=0

This will disable.

Re: SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:32:53 GMT

Shalom,

This problem comes commonly from misconfiguration that results in an invalid sendmail.cf file.

It is not recommended to run this daemon on systems that do not need to receive mail.

/etc/rc.config.d/sendmail

Set the start variable to zero.

You can have cron run sendmail -q
on a schedule to get mail off the machine to other destinations.

You will see errors in /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

They may be helpful in actually resolving the problem.

SEP

Re: SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

TTr — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:45:42 GMT

sendmail will also hang like this when the server name can not be resolved via DNS.

Re: SENDMAIL ERROR @ BOOT TIME

whiteknight — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:07:00 GMT

Arun,

check you have defined DNS in /etc/resolv.conf ?

check /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts: files dns

WK