Re: killing sendmail, using exim
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:06:02PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: >Sendmail is the default MTA, but I have Exim installed and now would like that to be >my mail server. I'd like to be able to kill Sendmail startup permanently, and have >Exim start at boot time, but I'm not sure how to do this. > >I did make an attempt. I edited /etc/rc.conf thus: > > sendmail_enable="NO" Use sendmail_enable="NONE" >I did a grep though the BSD FAQ and the handbook - both had only one sentence >mentioning Exim, saying nothing other than it exists. "FreeBSD Unleashed" wasn't much >more enlightening, so any advice will be appreciated. Read the exim FAQ (http://exim.org) on FreeBSD for further pointers, as well as checking the archives of this very list. -- yours, William ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: killing sendmail, using exim
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 07:06:02PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Sendmail is the default MTA, but I have Exim installed and now would like that to be > my mail server. I'd like to be able to kill Sendmail startup permanently, and have > Exim start at boot time, but I'm not sure how to do this. > > I did make an attempt. I edited /etc/rc.conf thus: > > sendmail_enable="NO" On more recent releases, set this to NONE - setting it to NO simply disables sendmail for _incoming_ mail - it still starts a daemon for outgoing mail. > > and added a line saying > > exim_enable="YES" No such thing in rc.conf. Instead, make sure the exim start script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is named correctly (should be exim.sh - if it ends in anything other than ".sh", rc will ignore it), and that it is executable by root. You will also need to tweak /usr/local/etc/exim/configure to meet your specific requirements. > > This does not seem to have worked, as the "ps" command still reports the presence of > Sendmail but nothing about Exim. I've checked to make sure Exim is installed: > Make sure you kill sendmail before starting exim: # killall sendmail # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim.sh start And you should be set. You shouldn't need to restart the machine, but the startup script will start exim for you when you do reboot. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> which exim > /usr/local/sbin/exim > > I did a grep though the BSD FAQ and the handbook - both had only one sentence > mentioning Exim, saying nothing other than it exists. "FreeBSD Unleashed" wasn't > much more enlightening, so any advice will be appreciated. I guess due to the large number of available MTA's, it's not practical to include docs that cover all of them - or people haven't yet written them... Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: killing sendmail, using exim
> sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_enable="NONE" Else it will leave one sendmail running ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
killing sendmail, using exim
Sendmail is the default MTA, but I have Exim installed and now would like that to be my mail server. I'd like to be able to kill Sendmail startup permanently, and have Exim start at boot time, but I'm not sure how to do this. I did make an attempt. I edited /etc/rc.conf thus: sendmail_enable="NO" and added a line saying exim_enable="YES" This does not seem to have worked, as the "ps" command still reports the presence of Sendmail but nothing about Exim. I've checked to make sure Exim is installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> which exim /usr/local/sbin/exim I did a grep though the BSD FAQ and the handbook - both had only one sentence mentioning Exim, saying nothing other than it exists. "FreeBSD Unleashed" wasn't much more enlightening, so any advice will be appreciated. TIA, regards, Robert ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
