[Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

When I installed Mimedefang 2.48  (back last November) I followed the 
mimedefang howto at:  http://www.mickeyhill.com/mimedefang-howto/  because 
gave me a step by step that was easy to follow and understand. In there it 
states:

Create or edit startup/shutdown script at /etc/init.d/sendmail to start 
MIMEDefang. Be sure to chmod 755. The sample script below is the Red Hat 
default script with these two lines added:

/etc/init.d/mimedefang start
/etc/init.d/mimedefang stop

and then it goes on to give a sample Redhat Sendmail init script which I 
used. It works fine to start/stop sendmail and mimedfeang and starts/stops 
them in the correct order. So again, I ask, can I modify the 
/etc/init.d/mimedefang start in my /etc/init.d/sendmail to read 
/etc/init.d/mimedefang -U defang start    ??
I'm afraid I don't have a clue about what you were talking about re run 
levels etc.

Lisa Casey



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Kamen" <bkamen at benjammin.net>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang


> Lisa Casey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sigh,  no I think  it's probably me that doesn't understand. Mimedefang 
>> is runing as a milter under Sendmail. I don't start mimedefang using 
>> /etc/init.d/mimedefang, I start it using /etc/init.d/sendmail. This 
>> script starts Sendmail and Mimedefang. When I installed mimedefang 2.48 I 
>> modified /etc/init.d/sendmail  as my directions said to do. In 
>> /etc/init.d/sendmail there is:
>>
>> # Start daemons.
>>
>>        /etc/init.d/mimedefang start
>>
>> Are you saying I should modify that to read /etc/init.d/mimedefang -U 
>> defang start
>
> Well, personally, I would find that to set bad precedence as if anything 
> changes with sendmail - the /etc/init.d/sendmail file would change. You 
> really want to start mimedefang before sendmail. You're running it the 
> same way I am - but I'm keeping the processes separate... which everyone 
> here will probably say is a good idea...
>
> Divide and conquer. Works in wars and Unix. ;)
>
> So split them back apart. Figure out which runlevel you want mimedefang to 
> start in (which can be summed up as, any runlevel that has an S##sendmail) 
> and put in a link to /etc/init.d/mimedefang to those rc.X dirs with an 
> S##mimedefang AND MAKE SURE THAT THE ## is one less than sendmail. (it's 
> that easy)
>
>
> then go back and check your mimedefang script and make sure it's the way 
> you want. ;)
>
>  -Ben
>
>
>
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