[ydl-gen] rc script that starts sendmail

jekillen jekillen at prodigy.net
Sat Mar 17 01:14:49 MDT 2007


On Mar 16, 2007, at 8:48 PM, Bill Fink wrote:

> 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.

thanks for the reply, and for the errata also, kill does make more
sense than call.
Jeff K.
>
>> 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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