[TriLUG] startup scripts, sendmail

Mark mark at thefowles.com
Sat Nov 10 13:47:33 EST 2001


Its usually an init script in /etc/init.d called sendmail -- you may
have to go back into the rcx.d directories and removed the K and S
command files as well (these are just links though)

Mark

"Richard O. Hammer" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am in the process of installing Qmail on my Red Hat 7
> system, and I'm having trouble finding specifically where to
> alter my startup scripts to neuter the command to start up
> sendmail (which Qmail is replacing).
>
> The Qmail instructions say:
> "
> Here's how to remove sendmail from your system.
>
> 1. Find sendmail in your boot scripts. It's usually in
> either /etc/rc or
>    /etc/init.d/sendmail. It looks like
>            sendmail -bd -q15m
>    -q15m means that it should run the queue every 15
> minutes; you may
>    see a different number. Comment out this line.
> "
>
> I have not found a line like that in the several scripts
> I've examined.
>
> Any hints?
>
> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
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