OK just tried "chkconfig --del sendmail" on host but that seems to stop
telnet <vs> 25 working although telnet <hostsvr> 25 still works!
Lucky chkconfig --add sendmail brings it back to normal!
Thanks anyway - particularly for bringing to my attention that useful
chkconfig!
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Ben Kennish
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling Sendmail on host server
> OK I just looked in /etc/hosts on the host server and made it
>
> 192.168.0.4 chiefwigham.fubra localhost
>
> rather than...
>
> 192.168.0.4 chiefwigham localhost.localdomain
>
> and now doing telnet to port 25 shows up as being right for both the host
> and v-ses (i.e. the correct name.)
>
> Strange - but true! Not only that but ... and get this ... this stopped
all
> the 'relaying denied' errors that I was having. Horray!
>
> BTW, Sendmail is being disabled by something or other I think (probably
> freeVSD) as whenever I boot up I get
>
> Starting Sendmail ........ [OK]
> ...
> Starting VSD [OK]
>
> but shutting down gives
>
> Stopping Sendmail [FAILED]
>
> Any ideas on how to stop sendmail running as a daemon on the host server
> permenantly? Cheers.
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> Ben Kennish
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>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Damion Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 3:03 PM
> Subject: Re: Disabling Sendmail on host server
>
>
> > Yup, sendmail is configured in inetd.conf. Hmmm. The thing thats
> > concerning me the most is the lack of the vs name in the header of the
> > telnet session, which makes me think that maybe the freevsd glibc
> > package wasn't installed into the skel, but if that wasn't included,
> > you'd surely be seeing a lot more problems with your vs (lots of command
> > not found errors during vsboot, because if glibc wasn't inlcuded, then
> > none of the other rpms should have been).
> >
> > Stumped me, anyone else?
> > Damion.
> >
> > Damion Parry wrote:
> > >
> > > It looks like sendamil isn't being redirected through virtuald. Is
this
> > > on a RH7 or RH6 box? Have you got the appropriate line in
[x]inetd.conf?
> > > If its on a RH7 box, is there an includedir directive above the
> > > virtualised services?
> > >
> > > Damion.
> > >
> > > Ben Kennish wrote:
> > > >
> > > > How do I know whether sendmail is enabled on host server and if so
how
> to
> > > > disable it.
> > > >
> > > > Only Im getting lots of those horrible relaying denied messages and
> have
> > > > been searching the mail list archives....
> > > >
> > > > telnet (hostserver) 25 gives ....
> > > >
> > > > "localhost.localdomain"
> > > >
> > > > and telnet (v-server) 25 gives ...
> > > >
> > > > "localhost.localdomain."
> > > >
> > > > Not very helpful huh?! Thanks in advance,
> > > >
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> > > > Ben Kennish
> > > >
> > > > Software Engineer
> > > > Fubra Limited
> > > >
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> >
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