Disabling Sendmail to enable qmail
Ben Stringer
ben at burbong.com
Wed Dec 24 14:14:48 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 23:00, Geert Vanderkelen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I'm installing qmail from source (I have my reasons btw) but need to
> remove the original sendmail or at least disable it.
> Putting an exit in the init.d script: upgrade might overwrite it
> (already happend). Maybe there is some kind of sysconfig where I can
> disable sendmail? DEAMON=No?
>
> But what I really would like, and maybe somebody has it made already, is
> a package that would replace the current sendmail installation. Simply a
> pakage that doesn't install anything but only says to the other
> packages: mail-service is available.
why not just remove the sendmail package?
rpm -e sendmail
or you can disable the service
chkconfig sendmail off
alternately, look at the command "redhat-switch-mail", although I think
this only switches between sendmail and postfix.
Cheers, Ben
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