Re: bootup freezes when sendmail daemon starts

From: A. Talsta (tasata_at_htklx2.htk.fi)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:00:02 GMT

On 2004-06-29, Christian Radermacher <rader@inwind.it> wrote:

> The boot procedure freezes for various minutes when the sendmail daemon
> starts; these two lines are displayed:
> "Starting sendmail MTA daemon: usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q25m"
> "Starting sendmail MSP queue runner: usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue
> -Ac -q25m"
>
> Can I disable this daemons? How?

If you are using an RPM based distro.

chkconfig --level 35 sendmail off 

-- 
A. Talsta

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