sendmail
I followed all the proper steps to install sendmail. I have a sendmail binary in /usr/sbin and my config file is in /ect/mail , but sendmail still won't run. I setup a user and group smmsp and set all the permissions properly. My system gives me this warning when I shutdown: WARNING: Mail Transfer Agent sendmail not installed. What is going on?? How do I start sendmail?
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It is started in the init scripts, what distro are you using?
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that's what I figured
Ya, that's what I figured, but there was no init script created for it on installation. How would I go about creating one? My distro is Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 I figured that there should be an init script in init.d on my system it is /etc/rc.d/init.d but nothing is there for it. I figured that maybe it was becuase the installation script couldn't find the init.d directory so I made a symlink /etc/init.d to my init.d directory and reinstalled, but it still didn't create any script for it.
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contents of /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
#!/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/rc.d/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 $prog: " /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1 if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then make -C /etc/mail -q else for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i fi done fi 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- contents of /etc/sysconfig/sendmail DAEMON=yes QUEUE=1h -------------------------------------------------------------------------- you will need to link to the init.d/sendmail in your /rc2.d /rc3.d /rc4.d and rc5.d folders using a link named S80sendmail. And a link to init.d/sendmail in your /rc1.d and rc6.d folders using a link named K30sendmail these links will start sendmail in levels 2,3,4 and 5 and kill it in levels 1 and 6 these scripts are for redhat 7.2 so yours may need to be somewhat different paths or filenames. |
great thanks, but this mail script won't run for some reason. When I list it, it shows up black while the rest of the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d show up green and when I try to run it, it just gives me a 'bash: ./sendmail: Permission denied'
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it needs to be chmoded
mine is like this ls -l /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1830 Aug 31 2001 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail chmod 755 filename |
it's working now thanks!
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it's working now. thanks!
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your welcome:D :Pengy:
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