[techtalk] Sendmail woes

Jeff Frasca phaedrus at thereactor.cleptoscastle.com
Tue Jul 18 17:30:26 EST 2000


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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Lilly S. wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering if someone can help me. I have over 50 emails in queue
> (from from last week), and none of them are budging. i was trying to tweak
> sendmail, and I think I broke it. I got it to run finally last week, but I

Tweaked Sendmail?  Does that mean messing with the config file?
*shudders at the thought*

> forgot to put the actual command in the startup files, and now I don't
> know how to restart it. I tried to reinstall the rpm's, to no avail. 

Installing an RPM won't run the program (thankfully, if it did, there
would be hell to pay).

> What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to start it with /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
> q15m

Running that from the command line as root should work.  Those are the
exact command line options I use with one exception:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q15m
                       ^ 
                       A dash in front of the `q15m' 

Try it with that addition ;)

> 
> i want it to start with every reboot.

Make sure it is in your start up files.  Check to make sure 
/etc/rc.d/inet.d/sendmail exists and there is a symbolic link to it at
/etc/rc.d/rc.2/S20sendmail  (or something around 20, it's been a while
since I've messed with RH's init scripts).

> I want it to deliver email instantly.
> I want it to send all the emails in the queue.

Hope that helped.

Jeff

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