That's what I did on my SCO Openserver system. It works fine except I
had to edit the script a bit because of the start/stop logic. It was
using a 'ps .. | awk ...' type script to find the process id of
"sendmail". I just linked the sendmail.pid to the exim.pid file and
changed the script to "kill `cat /etc/sendmail.pid`. That way, if I ever
had to go back to sendmail (which I did; long story) everything would
still work.
Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>
> * Yann Golanski <yann@???> [20011109 13:44]: writing on the subject 'Re: [Exim] Exim on Redhat Linux'
> | Quoth Tamas TEVESZ on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:29:33AM +0100
> | > On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> | >
> | > > I'mnot lazy. I am only not quite familiar with many aspects of
> | > > Linux. We have a Redhat box here which I'd like to run Exim on. I
> | > > have compiled Exim and even configured it. My only problem is how
> | > > to make the system run Exim every startup and _not_ sendmail. I'd
> | > > like to do away with sendmail. Of late I've come to know about the
> | > > run levels but I am wondering if its sufficient to replace the
> | > > sendmail startup script with the Exim one - exim.sh as seen on BSD
> | > > systems.
> | > i don't know much about redhat's init system, but i think you have to
> | > play with the thing named chkconfig (it's used to manipulate
> | > startup/shutdown links for the rc?.d directories - it's sysv init
> | > there, you know :)
> |
> | Simplest way is to remove sendmial from your system while keepingthe
> | /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file and linking exim to /usr/lib/sendmial
>
> Guys, I think this one is a very bright idea. Simply link exim to
> /usr/lib/sendmail and go to sleep ;)
>
> |(or some such -- see the /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail file). Otherwise, you
> | could create your own /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim file taking the sendmail as
> | an example and symlink it to where it needs to go.
>
> I did this but the /etc/rc.d/init.d/exim is directly taken out of FreeBSD
> box and doesn't do those myriad checks I see in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail.
>
> I'll go for your OPT.1
>
> TIA
>
> -Wash
>
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