[TriLUG] startup scripts, sendmail

[Benjamin Reed]

Richard O. Hammer [ROHammer at earthlink.net] wrote:
> 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?

On RedHat, you should just be able to run:

	'chkconfig sendmail off'

...and it will stop sendmail from starting in any runlevel.

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