steven@??? wrote:
>There is a problem when trying to swap out sendmail for Exim on Redhat
>9 - the init.d controls a process sm-client which did not exist until
>recently. Google does not return meaningful results for the problem.
>
>If you swap sendmail out you get the following message if you
>install Exim using the "alternatives" utility or use the methods that
>worked on earlier versions of Redhat.
>
>]# service sendmail start
>Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
>Starting sm-client: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -L
> [FAILED]
>
>Can someone confirm a tried and true fix for this please - I assume I
>can swap in an earlier init.d script but wanted to check what others
>had done. Is there a standard init.d script for Exim? I did not find
>one.
>
>Thanks,
>Steven
>
>
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below find the Exim init.d script encased in the Fedora Core RPMS:
#!/bin/bash
#
# exim This shell script takes care of starting and stopping exim
#
# chkconfig: 2345 80 30
# description: Exim is a Mail Transport Agent, which is the program \
# that moves mail from one machine to another.
# processname: exim
# config: /etc/exim/exim.conf
# pidfile: /var/run/exim.pid
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration.
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Source exim configureation.
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/exim ] ; then
. /etc/sysconfig/exim
else
DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=1h
fi
# Check that networking is up.
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
[ -f /usr/sbin/exim ] || exit 0
start() {
# check ownerships
# do this by seeing if /var/log/exim/main.log exists and is
# owned by exim - if owned by someone else we fix it up
if [ -f /var/log/exim/main.log ]
then
if [ "exim" != "`ls -l /var/log/exim/main.log | awk '{print
$4}'`" ]
then
chown -R exim:exim /var/log/exim /var/spool/exim
fi
fi
# Start daemons.
echo -n $"Starting exim: "
daemon /usr/sbin/exim $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
$([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/exim
}
stop() {
# Stop daemons.
echo -n $"Shutting down exim: "
killproc exim
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL = 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/exim
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
restart
;;
condrestart)
[ -f /var/lock/subsys/exim ] && restart || :
;;
status)
status exim
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|condrestart}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
