Sendmail & SpamAssassin at startup

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Dec 2 18:44:16 GMT 2004


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Andy Norris wrote:

> Okay... I have installed the latest version of MailScanner and
> SpamAssassin
> 3.0.1.
>
> My question...
>
> the spamassassin service should not run on its own (no service
> spamassassin
> start)...
>
> In the MailScanner book, the instruction is to turn sendmail off (don't
> start) at startup...
>
> Should the same thing be done for spamassassin?
>
> I do chkconfig --list spamassassin and I get:
>
> spamassassin  0:off  1:off  2:on  3:on  4:on  5:on  6:off
>
> Which should I turn off for a reboot to put the machine in the state I
> want
> it to be with regards to MailScanner, SpamAssassin, and SendMail?

chkconfig spamassassin off
chkconfig sendmail off
chkconfig MailScanner on

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