sendmail relay again

[Gary Stainburn]

On Wednesday 10 Mar 2004 5:53 pm, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:12 pm, kluu te wrote:
> > I didnt get any proper answer on my earlier posting, so I'll try again.
> > What do people do for machines on the local network to use the sendmail
> > program on the linux server? I have applied hostname or/and IP RELAY
> > in the /etc/mail/access file and rebuild the database.
> > restarted sendmail and it didnt work.
> > Any ideas?
>
> if you want sendmail to listen to other IP than 127.0.0.1, edit the file
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, and comment this line:
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
>
> then run "make -C /etc/mail"
>
> *DO NOT* edit the file /etc/sendmail.cf directly, unless you're absolutely
> know what you're doing.
>
> Then add the following to your /etc/hosts.allow:
>
> sendmail: ALL
>
> Restart xinetd, restart sendmail.
>
> RDB

Why does xinetd need to be restarted? What's this got to do with sendmail?
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