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Please note that the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file is for all type of configuration.
To configure your /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail script file to start and stop the Sendmail daemon, You have to create the sendmail script file, touch /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail and add:
#!/bin/sh
#
# 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 configuration.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/sendmail ] ; then
. /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
else
DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1h
fi
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -f /usr/sbin/sendmail ] || exit 0
RETVAL=0
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
# Start daemons.
echo -n "Starting sendmail: "
/usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
if [ -f /etc/mail/$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
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
;;
stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo -n "Shutting down sendmail: "
killproc sendmail
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/sendmail
;;
restart|reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
RETVAL=$?
;;
status)
status sendmail
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: sendmail {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
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Now, make this script executable and change its default permissions:
[root@deep] /# chmod 700 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
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Create the symbolic rc.d links for Sendmail with the command:
[root@deep] /# chkconfig --add sendmail
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Start your Sendmail Server manually with the following command:
[root@deep] /# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start
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Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
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Please do a cleanup as always later:
[root@deep] /# cd /var/tmp
[root@deep ]/tmp# rm -rf sendmail-version/ sendmail.version.tar.gz
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The
rm command as used above will remove all the source files we have used to compile and install Sendmail. It will also remove the Sendmail compressed archive from
the
/var/tmp directory.
