You can enable and disable services with chkconfig. For instance, the latest rpm package for postfix, postfix-2.0.12-1.rh9.i386.rpm, has in the package built in install script, among other things: chkconfig --add postfix Similiarly, it has this in the preuninstall scriptlet: chkconfig --del postfix Similarly, if you do: rpm -q --scripts sendmail | less you will find more chkconfig commands to do the same thing for sendmail. postfix, as the webpage says, tries to be a more secure, easier to configure replacement for sendmail, and as such, for a site like yours, will make sendmail unnecessary. You will see that the install script makes symlinks to a bunch of sendmail names, so that applications that need sendmail will still work, but will actually be invoking postfix, which works the same on the outside (but is different internally). LCR On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, jude dashiell wrote: > That's right you can't keep sendmail from > starting. postfix is not a replacement for > sendmail, it's an add-on for its own version of > sendmail which is pretty far out of date as > compared to sendmail 8.12.9. postfix is what > starts up sendmail for you as part of its > operating process. -- L. C. Robinson reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see "CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list