Re: [LUG] Redhat 7.3 is released

[John Horne <J.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07-May-2002 at 09:30:10 Simon Waters wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On 06-May-2002 at 18:42:56 Pete Hatton wrote:
> > >      Sendmail  and  Postfix message transfer agents (MTAs) with
> > >      switching tool
> >
> > Interesting...'switching tool'? Is that the same as stopping one and
> > starting the other?? :-)
>
> Lord no, the average drop sendmail replacement configuration
> requires you to backup the old sendmail executables, and replace
> with similarly named Postfix ones.
>
> You also have to modify the old Redhat sendmail start up script
> to issue "postfix stop" on stopping, as whilst the drop-in
> postfix will start from the old sendmail start up script, it
> doesn't stop it.
Oh good. Yet another reason not to use sendmail :-) Now, Exim...:-)


John.

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