sendmail startup problem

Mikhail Goriachev mikhailg at webanoide.org
Tue Jun 12 22:01:01 UTC 2007


Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Mikhail Goriachev wrote:
>>> How have you disabled it? It is not enough to do  
>>> 'sendmail_enable="NO"'.
>>> To completely disable sendmail you shoud use  
>>> 'sendmail_enable="NONE"'.
>> sendmail_enable="NO" and sendmail_enable="NONE" are the same and  
>> the first one is already present by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> No, they aren't identical.  See /etc/rc.d/sendmail:
> 
> case ${sendmail_enable} in
> [Nn][Oo][Nn][Ee])
>          sendmail_enable="NO"
>          sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
>          sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
>          sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"
>          ;;
> esac
> 
>> In order to disable the submission and hence stop sendmail  
>> completely, the following should be added into /etc/rc.conf:
>>
>> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
> 
> This is a partial solution.  The complete set of variables is listed  
> above or in /etc/defaults/rc.conf...


Oops... I stand corrected. My apologies for the noise.


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