From: Chris Green (chrisareti.co.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 09:42:39 CST

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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 10:44:45AM -0800, Office wrote:
> i'm running redhat 8.0 and have used the provided tool to switch from
> sendmail to postfix.... for some reason as the server boots it still runs
> sendmail as a service which is fine and gives an [ok], but when starting
> sm-client on the line afterwards the boot process stops, which prevents the
> rest of things from starting up, most notably apache which is bad as this is
> a live webserver, and i have to ssh in to start apache, webmin, vncserver,
> etc... at least i can ssh in 8-)
>
> the last entry in the boot.log says "sendmail started successfully" or
> something like that... there is no mention of sm-client starting or
> failing... do i really need sendmail? can i uninstall sendmail since i am
> using postfix?
>
It sounds very similar to the problem I had with Slackware and asked
about yesterday. The answer (in my case) was to change the sendmail
startup commands in the /etc/rc.xxxxx hierarchy to "postfix start".

Postfix tries to handle the old sendmail way of starting things by
installing a replacement executable for sendmail but this doesn't
appear to work perfectly in every case.

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Chris Green (chrisareti.co.uk)

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