glfs/server/mail/sendmail/sendmail-config.xml
Larry Lawrence 677a0f7b62 updated to samba-2.2.8
git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@824 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
2003-04-05 16:32:17 +00:00

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<sect2>
<title>Configuring sendmail</title>
<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><userinput>/etc/mail/aliases.db</userinput>,
<userinput>/etc/mail/sendmail.cf</userinput>, <userinput>/etc/mail/submit.cf</userinput> and
<userinput>/etc/mail/local-host-names</userinput></para>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Configuring sendmail</title>
<para><screen><userinput>echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names
cat &gt; /etc/mail/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root
<userinput>EOF
cd /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/* . &amp;&amp;
cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/submit.mc . &amp;&amp;
cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/sendmail.mc . &amp;&amp;
newaliases -v</userinput></screen></para>
<para>To start and stop sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the
sendmail boot script with the following commands: </para>
<note><para>The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls
how often Sendmail will process the mail queue.&nbsp;&nbsp;A default of 5
minutes is used here.&nbsp;&nbsp;Individual workstation users may want to set
this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will
want to set it higher.</para></note>
<para><screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail &lt;&lt; "EOF"</userinput>
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting sendmail..."
loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping Sendmail..."
killproc sendmail
;;
status)
statusproc sendmail
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# End $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
<userinput>EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:
<screen><userinput>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc0.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc1.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc2.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc3.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc4.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc5.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc6.d/K25sendmail</userinput></screen></para>
</sect3>
</sect2>