[ale] sendmail not automatically starting on boot

[Jeff Lightner]

Probably was never on.  I've had to start sendmail before but never
looked into it until today.  We don't boot these servers often.

 

Thanks for reminding me of chkconfig though.  I'd run across that
somewhere before but couldn't remember the name of it and earlier search
had only revealed a Debian equivalent.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jerry Yu
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:44 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] sendmail not automatically starting on boot

 

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
<mailto: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. 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
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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