[ale] sendmail not automatically starting on boot

[Jerry Yu]

this means at some point,  'chkconfig sendmail off' was run,  or something
else to the effect.

On 9/5/06, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>
> D'oh!
>
> I was starting to follow your suggestion when I focused on the
> /etc/rc?.d/ scripts and realized there were only K scripts - no S
> scripts which of course explains why it didn't start automatically.
> Since I saw multiple scripts by doing "ls -l /etc/rc?.d/*sendmail" I
> apparently didn't pay attention and it was only when looking
> specifically in /etc/rc3.d that I realized it only had one script which
> made me look at the others again and realize each of the my run level
> directories only had kill scripts.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Popovitch
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 2:31 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail not automatically starting on boot
>
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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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