sendmail

[John_608]

I have found out how to stop sendmail but now need to remove it from the system to stop anyone from restarting it can someone tell me the best method please.

thanks
John.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

rename /sbin/rc2.d/S540sendmail to
/sbin/rc2.d/TS540sendmail
so HP-UX wont see it anymore at startup.

greetings,

Michael

[Helen French]

To completely remove sendmail from system, you may need to manually remove the files from it:
/etc/mail has all configuration files,
/usr/sbin/sendmail is the executable,
/sbin/init.d/sendmail is the startup file,
/sbin/rcX.d/X540sendmail start and kill rc scripts.

[Kasper Haitsma]

Hi John,

The above responses work, but are not the 'proper' way to do system administration.. but it is your system.

The formal way to stop sendmail from starting as a service, is to modify the file
/etc/rc.config.d/mailservs

change the value of SENDMAIL_SERVER from 1 to 0 (zero), this will stop hp-ux from starting sendmail at boot time.

HTH

Kasper
HP sendmail, OpenMail, OVO-u support engineer

[Angus Crome]

You might also want to change the permissions and then rename /usr/sbin/sendmail to /usr/sbin/sendmail.offline (or something else useful). This would at least give another administrator pause, before starting it manually.