sendmail relay again

Cowles, Steve steve at stevecowles.com
Thu Mar 11 06:41:00 UTC 2004


Gary Stainburn wrote:
>> 
>> Restart xinetd, restart sendmail.
>> 
>> RDB
> 
> Why does xinetd need to be restarted? What's this got to do
> with sendmail?

Nothing at all. Sendmail is typically configured (at least from the redhat
RPM) to run as a daemon, not from xinetd. I guess sendmail could be
configured to run from xinetd, but the startup/tear down of the process for
each e-mail would be kinda slow.

Steve Cowles





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