sendmail restarting after being stopped

[Bob Bell]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:20:01PM -0400, Rodent of Unusual Size <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.  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
> up.
> 
> dammit, when i tell a service to stop, i mean *stop*!
> 
> has anyone else seen this, or have any idea about it?

Have you checked for cron jobs and /etc/inittab?

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Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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