Did you try: cat /etc/rc.config | grep -i sendmail ??? The "-i" indicates to "ignore case". I believe that the information in the rc.confog file are "environment" variables, and by default, environment variables are uppercase. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2 On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, dizzy73 wrote: ->Ive got something really disturbing happening. -> ->Today I decided to straighten out my mail configuration on my 7.1 ->machine. I started by reading my large SuSE (unleashed) book then the ->7.1 manual. I proceeded to start yast1 and make the necessary changes to ->my SENDMAIL variables. ->Confident I made the correct choices, I fired up pine and sent a mail ->(my mail should be in "deferred mode only activated nt sendmail -q) ->Well... sending the mail, triggered my dod and the message went off. ->Perplexed I was going to post the pertinent info from my rc.config file ->e.g. ->cat rc.config | grep sendmail -> ->Much to my horror I found NO ENTRIES!!! I went back into yast1, searched ->for SENDMAIL and sure enough they were there (my setting were intact). ->Referring back to my 7.1 manual (pg. 198) It says "all settings are ->written to /etc/rc.config" and the next 2 pages illustrate the typical ->entries in rc.config for SENDMAIL. -> ->I have NO entries for SENDMAIL in my rc.config file and my mail is ->getting sent automatically rather than in deferred mode. -> ->Now what the hell is going on!!! :-/ Please confirm or deny before I ->throw this box out the window -> ->at wits end -> ->rob -> -> ->-- ->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com ->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com ->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the ->archives at http://lists.suse.com -> ->