On Thursday 11 March 2004 08:07, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Thursday 11 March 2004 06:42 am, Cowles, Steve wrote: > > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > >> Restart xinetd, restart sendmail. > > >> > > >> RDB > > > > > > Why does xinetd need to be restarted? What's this got to do > > > with sendmail? > > > > Nothing at all. Sendmail is typically configured (at least from > > the redhat RPM) to run as a daemon, not from xinetd. I guess > > sendmail could be configured to run from xinetd, but the > > startup/tear down of the process for each e-mail would be kinda > > slow. > > Although in Redhat the access to sendmail is controlled by > tcpwrapper (ie /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny). SO if you > change those files you nned to restart xinetd. At least this is my > understanding with RH 7.x. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > RDB > Xinetd does not need to be restarted since sendmail will use the /etc/hosts.allow/deny files directly. No need to even restart sendmail. Regards, Mike Klinke -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
