sendmail service
 

please tell me how to start 'sendmail' service in rhel4.0 without rebooting the server...

I have done service sendmail restart at # prompt
but service doesn't started
and i can't reboot the server so please give me usefull suggestion

Nirmit,


use /etc/init.d/sendmail start
or
service sendmail start

If you want the daemon sendmail , to be started on boot , use

chkconfig sendmail on .

sendmail
 

i can't boot my server. i have done all this stuff but it is not started.
i am doning this :-

cat a|mutt -s "hi all" "nirmit.modi@elitecore.com"
a is a file..
this is the error:-
Error sending message, child exited 78 ().
Could not send the message.

Does the status of sendmail daemon is shown as stopped?
Or this error is due to some mistake in configuration????

if maybe it can help you, I do sendmail like this