topic Sendmail start problem in Operating System - HP-UX

Sendmail start problem

Sutapa Dey — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:07:42 GMT

Whenever I am trying to start the sendmail deamon in my HP-UX 11.23 itanium box, it is giving this error:

# /sbin/init.d/sendmail start
Sendmail server is disabled, You cannot start it manually using sendmail script.

Please help.

Re: Sendmail start problem

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:14:34 GMT

Hi:

Look at '/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs' and establish the variables to reflect what you want.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Sendmail start problem

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:35:50 GMT

Shalom,

To clarify there is a SENDMAIL or SENDMAIL_START variable in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs . Set it to 1.

Then /sbin/init.d/sendmail start

This will also set the server to auto start the daemon at boot.

The above configuration file has terse but human readable documentation within.

SEP