Re: [Exim] RedHat Linux 8.0 help

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:06:12PM -0600, Dan Egli wrote:

> RedHat 8.0 ships with either Sendmail or PostFix installed. So to make exim
> take over completely for mail delivery, follow the steps below:

There ist a better way to do this, keeping your installation RH-Compliant:

> 1) run ntsysv to disable Any of Sendmail, PostFix, or anything labeled mta.

You do not need to do so.

> 2) symlink the exim binary to the following points:
> a) /usr/lib/sendmail
> b) /usr/sbin/sendmail

No, just do the following:

ln -sf /path/to/exim /etc/alternatives/mta
ln -sf /path/to/exim /etc/alternatives/mta-mailq
ln -sf /path/to/exim /etc/alternatives/mta-rmail
ln -sf /bin/true /etc/alternatives/mta-newaliases

> 3) If you want to control Exim with a script that will load it during boot
> as part of the boot-up sequence, use the script I've attached. Otherwise
> just call the exim binary from a startup script like rc.local with the
> correct parameters. For example, to have it listen on port 25 and scan the
> Queue every 30 minutes, it's exim -bd -q30m

Just do a "chkconfig sendmail on"
and "/etc/init.d/sendmail start" for immediate starting of exim.

Thats it.

Matze