Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:13:12 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: John Von Essen <john@essenz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc.sendmail Message-ID: <20030621231312.GA9246@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <0BCBDE1C-A430-11D7-AA6D-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com> References: <0BCBDE1C-A430-11D7-AA6D-0003933DDCFA@essenz.com>
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On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 05:33:49PM -0400, John Von Essen wrote:
> Could someone please explain rc.sendmail to me? I am unclear why it=20
> does what it does. I currently have everything enabled in rc.conf:
>=20
> mta_start_script=3D"/etc/rc.sendmail"
> sendmail_enable=3D"YES"
> (1) sendmail_flags=3D"-L sm-mta -bd -q30m"
> sendmail_submit_enable=3D"YES"
> (2) sendmail_submit_flags=3D"-L sm-mta -bd -q30m=20
> -ODaemonPortOptions=3DAddr=3Dlocalhost"
> sendmail_outbound_enable=3D"YES"
> (3) sendmail_outbound_flags=3D"-L sm-queue -q30m"
> sendmail_msp_queue_enable=3D"YES"
> (4) sendmail_msp_queue_flags=3D"-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m"
>=20
> With the above settings, when I do a 'make start', only (1) and (4) get=
=20
> started. If I set sendmail_enable=3D"NO", then only (2) and (4) start. If=
=20
> I set sendmail_enable=3D"NO" and sendmail_submit=3D"NO", then only (3) an=
d=20
> (4).
>=20
> This doesn't make any sense to me. For starters, why would I ever want=20
> just (3) and (4) running? Furthermore, I can't seem to get (1), (3),=20
> and (4) to all start together. I imagine people would want those three=20
> since you need your main sendmail running, and you could have a need=20
> for an "always-on" queue runner for mqueue and clientmqueue.
Anyhow, here are a couple of answers I prepared earlier, which you
might find useful:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=3D20020906085719.GC34657%40happy=
-idiot-talk.infracaninophi.lucky.freebsd.questions&oe=3DUTF-8&output=3Dgpla=
in
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?selm=3Daupkof%24ki2%241%40FreeBSD.csi=
e.NCTU.edu.tw&oe=3DUTF-8&output=3Dgplain
Cheers,
Matthew
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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
Savill Way
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Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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