sendmail startup script?

[Ken Hawkins]

I am in the midst of reconfiguring sendmail on a box to forward the
mail from the domain to another box (true mail smtp box). is there a
script that I can call similar to what is in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d
area? how does sendmail konw what flags to set in the command on
startup?

btw my line from ps'ing is:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t

thanks in advance!

ken;

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-02-23 08:54, Ken Hawkins <ken@rosewoodblues.com> wrote:

> I am in the midst of reconfiguring sendmail on a box to forward the
> mail from the domain to another box (true mail smtp box). is there a
> script that I can call similar to what is in the /usr/local/etc/rc.d
> area? how does sendmail konw what flags to set in the command on
> startup?

/etc/rc.conf contains the flags for Sendmail.

The /etc/rc.sendmail script can be used to stop, start or restart the
Sendmail daemon processes.

> btw my line from ps'ing is:
>
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -FCronDaemon -odi -oem -oi -t

This doesn't look like a daemon invocation of Sendmail (i.e. no -bd
flags are present). The -t option means it's probably an invocation of
Sendmail from another user process, which is currently posting a
message.

- Giorgos