Me again,
How do I disable the sendmail daemon in Linux so that its not checked during start up. I have no plans on using it in a test box and it takes three minutes to time out during the boot process. It's very annoying.
How do I disable sendmail?
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How do I disable sendmail?
Thanks,
Juliette
Juliette
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Re: How do I disable sendmail?
Julie,
What flavor of Linux are you running?
In RedHat and CentOS its easy to disable sendmail by editing the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file and ...
Changing the line:
What flavor of Linux are you running?
In RedHat and CentOS its easy to disable sendmail by editing the /etc/sysconfig/sendmail file and ...
Changing the line:
- DAEMON=yes
- DAEMON=no
Jim Knicely
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Re: How do I disable sendmail?
If you want to disable sendmail completely you can run the following command as root:
/sbin/chkconfig sendmail off
/sbin/chkconfig sendmail off
Jim Knicely
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