sendmail startup problem

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 07:43:01AM +1000, Mikhail Goriachev wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Charlie McElfresh wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have sendmail disabled in rc.conf, but it starts up anyway.  Any hints
> >> what might be starting it up?
> >
> >How have you disabled it? It is not enough to do 'sendmail_enable="NO"'.
> >To completely disable sendmail you shoud use 'sendmail_enable="NONE"'.
> 
> sendmail_enable="NO" and sendmail_enable="NONE" are the same

No, they are not.

> and the 
> first one is already present by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf
> 
> In order to disable the submission and hence stop sendmail completely, 
> the following should be added into /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> sendmail_submit_enable="NO"

Yes, but 'sendmail_submit_enable="NONE"' implies
'sendmail_submit_enable="NO"'.
Setting 'sendmail_enable="NONE"' will indeed completely disable
sendmail.




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