How to start and stop sendmail?

AMDPwred · 03-11-2002, 07:07 PM

Does anyone know the command?

finegan · 03-11-2002, 07:44 PM

I always kill sendmail the good old fashioned way:

cat /var/run/sendmail.pid

Then kill that pid number.

To start:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m

That will start it so it processes the que every 15 minutes.

Cheers,

Finegan

AMDPwred · 03-11-2002, 09:48 PM

Well I found out how to start and stop it. I'm just having trouble using it from another box on the LAN. I can get a connection, just not use the service. I'm still working on it.

acid_kewpie · 03-12-2002, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by finegan
I always kill sendmail the good old fashioned way:

cat /var/run/sendmail.pid

Then kill that pid number.

To start:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m

That will start it so it processes the que every 15 minutes.

Cheers,

Finegan

hmm.. you're odd...

finegan · 03-12-2002, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by acid_kewpie

hmm.. you're odd...

And that was a shock? Actually, I know there must be some better way in RedHat by calling the init script or such, but I only run sendmail in slack, so that would be kinda worthless to tell him.

Cheers,

Finegan