Cédric Chausson <cchausson@xxxxxxx> writes: > So, just to make sure I have understood well, it is not possible to > have sendmail not running and having it go on automatically when > scripts invoke the mail command ? You could do that by invoking sendmail with daemon flag in you script and closing it down after with your script. I think you could do it as simply as: cat my_script #!/bin/bash service sendmail start && <code that mails something> && service sendmail stop The double ampersands may not be necessary, but are supposed to guarantee the preceding command is completed before calling the next one.
