[opensuse] howto forcefully disable daemon in a runlevel
hi all, I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well. I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot? Yast, insserv and chkconfig all claim this dependency, and therefore don't work. Regards, Mourik Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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hi all,
I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well.
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
If you know this for sure, go and edit /etc/init.d/<your scalix script> and remove postfix from Required-Start and Required-Stop at the beginning of this file. I'm not sure, but iirc you have to remove and readd scalix, then remove postfix.
Yast, insserv and chkconfig all claim this dependency, and therefore don't work.
They all get their information from the same source (see above)
Regards, Mourik Jan
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Thanks for your replies. I'll give this a try tomorrow! Have a nice sunday! Mourik Jan
I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well.
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
If you know this for sure, go and edit /etc/init.d/<your scalix script> and remove postfix from Required-Start and Required-Stop at the beginning of this file.
I'm not sure, but iirc you have to remove and readd scalix, then remove postfix.
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Hello mourik, hello community ! mourik jan c heupink wrote / schrieb:
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
AFAIK "postfix" is a substitute for "sendmail" in the openSUSE-environment. -- Never give up ! Best regards / Gruß, Reinhard. "Software is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 28 January 2007 04:25, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
hi all,
I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well.
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
Yast, insserv and chkconfig all claim this dependency, and therefore don't work.
You might want to read man sendmail. sendmail is a command, installed by the postfix package, as well as a MTA. Do you have (package) sendmail installed? -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
hi all, It looks as if I have a strange inconsistency in my system: "rpm -q postfix" says: "package postfix is not installed" "rpm -q sendmail" says: "sendmail-8.12.1102.10" but I DO have /etc/init.d/postfix (and it also REALLY starts postfix) and I also have /etc/init.d/sendmail (which starts the REAL sendmail, according to the contents of that file itself) but "man sendmail" talks about the "postfix to sendmail compatibility interface". Anyone has an idea what could be wrong here? Looks very unlogical to me, specially the output of the rpm -q commands... Regards! mourik jan jim barnes wrote:
On Sunday 28 January 2007 04:25, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
hi all,
I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well.
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
Yast, insserv and chkconfig all claim this dependency, and therefore don't work.
You might want to read man sendmail. sendmail is a command, installed by the postfix package, as well as a MTA. Do you have (package) sendmail installed?
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* mourik jan c heupink
It looks as if I have a strange inconsistency in my system: "rpm -q postfix" says: "package postfix is not installed" "rpm -q sendmail" says: "sendmail-8.12.1102.10"
but I DO have /etc/init.d/postfix (and it also REALLY starts postfix) and I also have /etc/init.d/sendmail (which starts the REAL sendmail, according to the contents of that file itself)
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-30 at 10:39 +0100, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
It looks as if I have a strange inconsistency in my system: "rpm -q postfix" says: "package postfix is not installed" "rpm -q sendmail" says: "sendmail-8.12.1102.10"
but I DO have /etc/init.d/postfix (and it also REALLY starts postfix) and I also have /etc/init.d/sendmail (which starts the REAL sendmail, according to the contents of that file itself)
Perhaps you have postfix installed from a tgz. If so, uninstall manually, but first, heed Patrick advice. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFv6yetTMYHG2NR9URArHeAJ9waF5cEDh5KTD8D8224kaWyEEEXwCdHXxs c3bol8SzAzsqaaKAvPxxSVE= =zEFi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi!
Perhaps you have postfix installed from a tgz. If so, uninstall manually, but first, heed Patrick advice.
rpm --rebuilddb did not change anything. I inherited this system, but searching it did not reveal any traces regarding postfix tgz installation. (searched for *postfix*, and and that turned up no extracted archives or anything) I'm also having other problems with this system at the moment (high iowait percentages up to 60, 70%, for example) so I'm getting more and more doubts about this complete installation. In a week or so, when I have the time, I will reinstall this system and I hope it will behave better then. Regards, Mourik Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-01-31 at 12:03 +0100, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
Perhaps you have postfix installed from a tgz. If so, uninstall manually, but first, heed Patrick advice.
rpm --rebuilddb did not change anything. I inherited this system, but searching it did not reveal any traces regarding postfix tgz installation. (searched for *postfix*, and and that turned up no extracted archives or anything)
Well, as you say postfix does start, there are postfix binaries around. Just find them and delete them. Or try, for instance: rpm -q -f `which postmap` to find out from which rpm was postfix installed from, if any. There should be a list in "/etc/postfix/postfix-files".
I'm also having other problems with this system at the moment (high iowait percentages up to 60, 70%, for example) so I'm getting more and more doubts about this complete installation.
In a week or so, when I have the time, I will reinstall this system and I hope it will behave better then.
Well, that's a reasonable option. But make a full backup first, as you don't know for certain what you will be deleting. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFwHwotTMYHG2NR9URApDaAJ4wpIMyAJgZwxFz50CZg2pgCrWk5gCcDHKz HKDRxe4+87ibuCom1Ba+ypg= =oywX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2007-01-28 at 12:25 +0100, mourik jan c heupink wrote:
I want to disable postfix in my default runlevel (3), but my system (sles9, sp3) claims that scalix (mailserver software) depends on postfix, and will then be disabled as well.
I know that scalix does NOT depend on postfix (in fact: it needs sendmail) so, how can I bypass this check, and manually disable postfix on boot?
If you do not need postfix, then uninstall it. Anyway, you should not have both postfix and sendmail _packages_ installed. BUT! If you are using the sendmail binary from the postfix package, then you _do_ _need_ postfix enabled. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFvSYFtTMYHG2NR9URAuMPAJoCkyAnGE537TpAOcKADxG3L44/qgCeMBG7 5iLP2xwDr0fXtT+yH1CHt44= =fzYC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Carlos E. R. -
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Rauch Christian -
Reinhard Gimbel