From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 07:53:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7447F16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:53:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E0EE43D1F for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:53:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 55FC2C158; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:53:44 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:53:44 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Louis LeBlanc Message-ID: <20041118075344.GD92397@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041118023638.GA899@keyslapper.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: postfix launch at system startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:53:45 -0000 On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:36:38PM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey all. I'm having a little trouble with postfix launch at startup > in 5.3. > > At install, I specified postfix as the mta, and had it configured in > /etc/mail/mailer.conf. The /stand/sysinstall shell also added the > following to /etc/rc.conf: > > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" > sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" > sendmail_submit_enable="NO" > sendmail_flags="-bd" > sendmail_enable="YES" > > I figured that would be the end of it. > > I can't find anything to indicate what should be done to make it start > up at system boot. Once the system is up, I simply execute This is what I've got in my /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="YES" # We run Postfix sendmail_pidfile="/var/spool/postfix/pid/master.pid" sendmail_flags="-bd" # smaller flags sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" # no such requirement for Postfix sendmail_submit_enable="NO" # no such requirement for Postfix sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" # no such requirement for Postfix Make sure the appropriate entries are in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled