[Mimedefang] OT: Sendmail Startup Script Question

[Jeff Grossman]

>     Hrm, I had to do quite a bit of adjusting to get things working
> properly.  For starters, as you noted, upon bootup only one instance
of
> sendmail comes up.  By default only on instance will shut down.  Yeah,
> issues.  I also wanted to start up mimedefang and the multiplexor at
the
> same time, and rebuild the various databases that sendmail uses.
After
> several trial and errors, I finally got to a script that has been
> working well for me for months now.  I've attached it as a .zip file.
>  My suggestion would be for you to go over it, read it step by step
and
> either make your own adjustments for your setup or...just use it if it
> fits your environment.  Note that I try to read in
> /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang for custom settings, otherwise it will use
the
> defaults specified in the script.

Thank you.  I will look it over and see how you did it.

Jeff
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Jeff Grossman (jeff at stikman.com)