[ale] sendmail not automatically starting on boot

[Jim Popovitch]

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Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Some other step needed to start sendmail automatically after boot of
> RHEL 3 machines?
> 
> OK this one mystifies me.
> 
> There is a working script /etc/init.d/sendmail.   ?service sendmail
> start? works fine.
> 
> There are links to /etc/init.d/sendmail from /etc/rc?.d/S**sendmail in
> the various run levels including the one I?m at now.
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/sendmail does have DAEMON set to yes and QUEUE set to 1h.
> 
> There are no messages regarding sendmail in /var/log/messages (other
> than the shutdown message).   It doesn?t appear to have started and died
> ? just not to have started.   Unfortunately I can?t reboot the server at
> the moment so can?t see if it shows an attempt to start sendmail and
> state of such attempt.
> 
> By all the above though it appears sendmail should start yet after a
> boot over the weekend it either didn?t or died without explaining why as
> it was not up when needed by a user this morning.   As noted ?service
> sendmail start? brings it up just fine.

Check the rc scripts to see what starts up before and after sendmail.
In order for sendmail to successfully start you will need network and
probably bind (depending on your DNS config/setup).

- -Jim P.
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