How to start the sendmail in boot in hpux

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

I want to start the sendmail in boot time in hpux.

what is the configuration file to do this?

[Pete Randall]

/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs


Pete

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Senthil:

Like all 'rc' script in HP-UX you need to look in the '/etc/rc.config.d' directory for configuration variables and then in '/sbin/init.d' for the actual startup and shutdown script.

In the case of 'sendmail' the '/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs' contains the configuration settings and '/sbin/init.d/sendmail' is the actual startup/shutdown script.

Hint:

# ls /etc/rc.config.d/* /sbin/init.d/*|grep mail

...will tell you this :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Pete Randall]

Or:

# grep sendmail /etc/rc.config.d/*
/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs:# Mail configuration. See sendmail(1m) #
/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs:# run the sendmail deamon.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Set the start variable (name is obvious) in /etc/rc.config.d/mailservs to 1

/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

SEP

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi

below statement is correct?

#vi /etc/rc.config.d/mailsvrs

export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1


is it enough to start the sendmail at boot time.

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

> export SENDMAIL_SERVER=1
is it enough to start the sendmail at boot time.

To start 'sendmail' as a daemon, yes. You do _NOT_ need to set this to send outbound mail, though. Read the comments in '/sbin/init.d/sendmail' for more information.


Regards!

...JRF...

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi James,

when we are setting this. to which runlevel it will goes to effect that is runlevel 2 or runlevel 3.

[senthil_kumar_1]

James,

dont we need to run sendmail for just sending the mails to another mailserver in our network.


Actually we have to run sendmail server in redhat linux even if we want to send the mails to another mail server.

pls clarify me.

[Mel Burslan]

find /sbin -name "*sendmail*" | grep "/S"

whatever rcX.d is showing up in the path is what you are looking for. The run level is the X value, in which sendmail will be started.