stop sendmail srvice

murad.jaber · October 3, 2007, 5:41am

dear all

does any one know how to stop send mail in solaris

fpmurphy · October 3, 2007, 6:29am

As root, issue the following command

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop

To restart it:

/etc/init.d/sendmail start

rolandk · December 28, 2008, 6:37am

I tried to stop sendmail (/etc/rc.d/init.d) but I recieve the message command not found. What am I doeing wrong (shell login with root/su)

Sun_Fire · December 28, 2008, 9:46am

if Solaris 10, try

svcs -a |grep -i sendmail
svcadm disable <whatever output you get>

rolandk · December 28, 2008, 10:23am

Thank you very much for your answer and attention. I checked the version with uname and I was surprised to see that I have Linux 2.4. I thought I have solaris 9. I have to stop the sendmail and delete some mails in the queue and restart it. Thank you in advance for the support.

reborg · December 28, 2008, 10:34am

The command from fpmurhy's post should also work on Linux on a Sun web appliance.

rolandk · December 28, 2008, 11:14am

Thank you very much reborg, really appreciate.