Author: Jeff Hodge Date: To: Gary Mason CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] A beginners confusion ....
At 02:11 PM 11/9/2001 -0000, Gary Mason wrote: >I'm very new to Linux mail, having come from a M$ background. My SuSE Linux >server initially ran sendmail but I installed Exim 3.33 yesterday. I
>compiled the source, created an Exim executable, and copied that to
>/usr/sbin/sendmail. In theory, whenever I restart sendmail, Exim kicks in
>instead. I have checked by telnet'ing to port 25 and confirming that it
>does say Exim and not sendmail.
>
>My confusion comes with the fact that the process table shows the sendmail
>line, as expected, but still includes the old sendmail command line options >-bd -q15m -om. If I change the sendmail configuration file in
>/etc/rc.config, then these changes appear when I restart the sendmail run
>script. Does Exim still use the sendmail configuration file as well as it's >own configuration file, or am I doing something very wrong here.
Exim uses its own config file. If you are still using sendmail's startup
script you need to look at /etc/rc.d/sendmail. Look for the SENDMAIL_ARGS
variable.