sendmail restarting after being stopped

[Morbus Iff]

 >i occasionally have to shut sendmail down for an interval while
 >frobbing some mail files.  unfortunately, there seems to be something
 >that silently restarts it unpredictably.  it's a real pita.  i
 >haven't figured out what's doing it (rh 7.2), but i've had to resort
 >to renaming the sendmail binary to keep it from possibly coming back

How are you actually shutting down sendmail? On SuSE 7.1, I have to issue 
the "/etc/rc.d/sendmail stop" command about five or six times before it 
actually kills all the processes.


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