sendmail restarting after being stopped

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, at 3:20pm, Ken.Coar at golux.com wrote:
> 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.

  Sending a message using "sendmail" will cause it to be invoked, but it
should only process that one message.

  Doing a "service sendmail shutdown" will stop the main daemon, but any
children it has spawned to service requests or queue items will run until
they complete.

  linuxconf has a tendency to screw everything up.  I can't remember if it
is still in 7.2 or not, but if it is, I recommend "rpm --erase linuxconf"  
ASAP.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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