source: server/mail/sendmail/sendmail-config.xml@ fd5d65c

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Sendmail</application></title>

<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
</sect3>

<sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>

<screen><userinput><command>echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names
cat &gt; /etc/mail/aliases &lt;&lt; "EOF"
postmaster: root
MAILER-DAEMON: root
EOF
cp -R cf/* /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
cp cf/cf/{submit,sendmail}.mc /etc/mail &amp;&amp;
newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>

<para>To start and stop Sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the
<command>sendmail</command> boot script with the following commands:</para>

<note><para>The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls
how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5
minutes is used here. Individual workstation users may want to set
this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will
want to set it higher.</para></note>

<screen><userinput><command>cat &gt; /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail &lt;&lt; "EOF"
#!/bin/sh
# Begin $rc_base/init.d/sendmail

# Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
# Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans  - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org

source /etc/sysconfig/rc
source $rc_functions

case "$1" in

        start)
        echo "Starting sendmail..."
        loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
        ;;

        stop)
        echo "Stopping Sendmail..."
        killproc sendmail
        ;;
                
        status)
        statusproc sendmail
        ;;
        
        restart)
        $0 stop
        sleep 1
        $0 start
        ;;

        *)
        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

# End $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</command></userinput></screen>

<para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput><command>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc0.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc1.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc2.d/K25sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc3.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc4.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc5.d/S35sendmail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc6.d/K25sendmail</command></userinput></screen></sect3>

</sect2>