Trying to set up sendmail to run through xinetd in RH 8.0 fails as follows:
1) Start sendmail as standard daemon. Send mail out from server and send mail in to server from an outside source. Both work fine verifying that sendmail works.
2) Shut down the sendmail deamon (make sure it's not running as a daemon).
3) Edit xinetd.conf file as follows:
service smtp
{
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root
only_from = 0.0.0.0
server = /usr/sbin/sendmail
server_args = -bs
flags = NORETRY
nice = 10
instances = 5
}Note: I put the only_from control in there just to make sure that the problem was not IP restriction.
4) stop and restart xinetd.
5) Send a mail message out from the server and send mail in to the server from an outside source.
Nothing happens...mail does not go out and mail does not come in.
6) Manually start the sendmail daemon, the outgoing mail message gets sent and the incoming message (eventually) comes through.
Any ideas why xinetd approach isn't working?
And a tangential question....when I attempted the outgoing message via xinetd, I expected to find the queued message in /var/spool/mqueue. It was not there. But it's out there somewhere, because when I started the sendmail daemon manually, the message was sent. Anyone know where the queued message was stored?
Thanks,
Jay
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