[ydl-gen] rc script that starts sendmail

Bill Fink billfink at mindspring.com
Fri Mar 16 22:48:58 MDT 2007


Hi Jeff,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, jekillen wrote:

> Hello:
> What is the rc script that starts Sendmail on YDL 3.0?
> I want to set it up to NOT start sendmail on boot.

As root:

	chkconfig --level 0123456 sendmail off

Can check with:

	chkconfig --list sendmail

> And as a matter of fact, I do not want it ot start
> Xwindows on boot either. I am running on a 3400c
> Powerbook, All it does is run 24/7 as a secondary
> DNS server and with max memory of 144 Mb of RAM

Edit the /etc/inittab file and change initdefault from 5 to 3.
Then reboot.

Also can change on the fly by running the command "init 3", which
will call X Windows.

> I have seen it killing Apache and sendmail processes
> for lack of memory.
> One last question
> What does:
> irda_setup 1st byte=3
> mean as a console message.

Don't know about that one.

> I presume that it has to do with the
> infrared networking port. But it has
> been appearing a number of times
> over the last month or so. Right now
> it has been written to the console
> 5 times.
> Thanks,
> Jeff K.

						-Cheers

						-Bill


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