Re: sendmail startup scripts

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To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 17:14:42 +0100

Subject: Re: sendmail startup scripts

> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:50 +0100, Bryan Hepworth wrote:
>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> This is a general question so please bear with me on this request...
>>
>> I had to install an antivirus product on the two sendmail servers we
>> have at work. The installation and subsequent capture of viruses works
>> fine but I'm not happy with the startup procedure, which could have
>> been a bit more refined.
>>
>> To start everything running you need the listener to start all in the
>> following order:-
>>
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q10m -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf.listen
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q10m -C /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail -q10m -C /etc/mail/submit.cf
>>
>> I'd really like this to happen in the startup scripts /etc/init.d
>> rather than stopping all the services and restarting one by one. It's
>> more of an automation so that if the box did fall over they would all
>> come back up on boot with no manual intervention.
>>
>> My scripting knowledge is so far pretty poor so I'd really appreciate
>> some constructive pointers on the scripts themselves and integrating
>> things like this.
>
> It's best not to edit the standard startup scripts because your edits
> could get lost when an updated sendmail package (e.g. a security update)
> gets installed.
>
> The last two of the three daemons you need can be done using the
> standard sendmail initscript. To get the queue retry interval set to 10
> minutes for both the MTA and the MSP as you have them above, and with
> the standard MTA not listening as a daemon, put the following
> in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail:
>
> DAEMON=no
> QUEUE=10m
> SMQUEUE=10m
>
> The "SMQUEUE" setting is actually redundant since it will default to the
> QUEUE setting if not specified.
>
> All you need then is an additional initscript, called before the
> standard one, to start up the daemon that listens for incoming mail.
>
> You can use a modified version of the standard sendmail initscript to
> handle this daemon. The attached sendmail.kap script should be a
> reasonable starting point. Copy it to /etc/rc.d/init.d and do:
>
> # chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.kap
> # chkconfig --add sendmail.kap
> # chkconfig sendmail.kap reset
>
> Your three daemons should then start and stop in the desired order.
>
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org>
>
Cheers Paul

Reckon that's a pint or two o' Stella in the pumps for you. Thanks very much
it's much appreciated.

Bry

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