[Mimedefang] Starting & stopping Mimedefang
John Nemeth
jnemeth at victoria.tc.ca
Mon Aug 13 21:57:55 EDT 2007
On Jan 3, 6:50am, "Lisa Casey" wrote:
}
} I have been running mimedefang with sendmail on redhat linux for awhile. I
} recently migrated the mail server to a Freebsd computer running Sendmail
} 8.13.1 and Mimedefang 2.61 I realise that as far as starting & stopping
} things goes, mimedefang should be started BEFORE sendmail is started and
} mimedefang should be stopped AFTER sendmail is stopped. That was all fine on
} the redhat box, /etc/init.d/sendmail was the script that
} starts/stops/restarts sendmail and in it there were comments (such as #
} Start daemons. and # Stop daemons.) which showed me where in the script
} sendmail was started/stopped and I inserted /etc/init.d/mimedefang start
} and /etc/init.d/mimedefang stop in the appropriate places so when I stop
} sendmail and start sendmail mimedefang and sendmail start and stop at the
} right times.
}
} I need to do the same thing on this new FreeBSD/Sendmail/Mimedefang box but
} it's not as clear how to do so. On the FreeBSD box, sendmail starts/stops
} via the script /etc/rc.d/sendmail but it's not at all clear in this script
} just where sendmail is started & stopped, so I'm not sure where I should
} insert the lines about mimedefang.
}
} Can anyone on this list help with this? Thanks in advance,
I answered this question on Aug. 3rd, see:
http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2007-August/033234.html
Alternatively, pester the person responsible for the MIMEDefang port
until they provide you with proper rc.d scripts.
}-- End of excerpt from "Lisa Casey"
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