mailscanner / cobalt raq3 or 4

[Peter Peters]

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:51:16 +0100, you wrote:

>I see the current installation script in the rpm removes sendmail
>from the chkconfig list and replaces with mailscanner. That's neat and
>I suspect will stop an awful lot of headaches :)
>
>My questions are:-
>
>1. On the cobalt raq's there's a process monitor called swatch that
>watches relevant services and if they are down tries to automatically
>restart them.
>Hidden away in /etc/cobalt/swatch/services/smtp is the line
>"restart = /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail hard-restart"
>so if the system monitor detects sendmail down it will execute the line
>above.

It shouldn't restart sendmail if it is removed from the chkconfig. That
is the whole purpose of chkconfig.

If it does it is a big bug you should report to Cobalt.

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Peter Peters
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