[Mimedefang] HUGE problem with mimedefang

[Ben Kamen]

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