David A. Bandel babbled on about: > there's a big difference between having sendmail installed and having it > running (accepting on port 25). Programs can invoke sendmail without > sendmail running. What I'm talking about (and most of the configurations > entail) is having it listening on a socket 24x7.
yes. in your sendmail startup script, there should be somewhere options passed to sendmail. they typically look like '-bd -q30m' . I usually change mine to be '-q5m' . Notice that I remove the '-bd'. This prevents sendmail from starting up in daemon mode. It comes up in 'flush queue' mode only and sends any mail that it needs to every 5 minutes. works for me -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
