Im using Redhat 7,1, but can find nowehere to start, stop, or restart sendmail. I SHOULD have a script in /etc/init.d and it is not there. Can someone give me a copy of their sendmail script, or tell me an alternate script location to check?

thanks

#!/bin/bash
#
# sendmail This shell script takes care of starting and stopping
# sendmail.
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30
# description: Sendmail is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program \
# that moves mail from one machine to another.
# processname: sendmail
# config: /etc/sendmail.cf
# pidfile: /var/run/sendmail.pid

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network

# Source sendmail configureation.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/sendmail ] ; then
. /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
else
DAEMON=no
QUEUE=1h
fi

# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0

[ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ] || exit 0

RETVAL=0
prog="sendmail"

start() {
# Start daemons.

echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
fi
done
daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
$([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
killproc sendmail
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
return $RETVAL
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
condrestart)
if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail ]; then
stop
start
RETVAL=$?
fi
;;
status)
status sendmail
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|condrestart|status}"
exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Thanks for the script, but when i try to execute it I get:

/etc/xinetd.d/sendmail start
bash: /etc/xinetd.d/sendmail: Permission denied

Ideas?

Login as root and cd to /etc/rc,d/init.d


type these two commands

chown root:root sendmail

cmod 0755 sendmail

You must start sendmail as root.

a new one:
[root@Bugtel init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail: -q1h: command not found

Sorry, can't help you. Sounds like something isn't installed.

Is sendmail in /usr/sbin ?

yes it is