What's the method/proceedure for removing a boot daemon.
I want to remove "sendmail"

simply removing the package doesn't seem to do the trick.

I guess I can short circute it by removing it from init.d but there
a more complete method.

thank you

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:05:03 -0500, craig <craig@stellarnet.com> wrote:
>
>
> What's the method/proceedure for removing a boot daemon.
> I want to remove "sendmail"
>
> simply removing the package doesn't seem to do the trick.
>
> I guess I can short circute it by removing it from init.d but there
> a more complete method.
>
> thank you


That's the ticket. Remove the executable and the script from init.d
and the symlink in /etc/rc whatever.

There's a mini-HOWTO on the ldp site called "small linux" or something
like that, that covers it in detail.

But with sendmail you'll have more to do. Run locate sendmail and start
deleting :-)

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:05:03 -0500, craig <craig@stellarnet.com> wrote:
>
>
> What's the method/proceedure for removing a boot daemon.
> I want to remove "sendmail"
>
> simply removing the package doesn't seem to do the trick.
>
> I guess I can short circute it by removing it from init.d but there
> a more complete method.
>
> thank you


Here's a trick that will save you some time:

$ locate sendmail > /home/you/newfile

Go through newfile very carefully and make sure that you delete any
lines containing paths to files that you are not SURE you don't need.

Then do this, as root:

$ while read line; do rm -f $line ; done < /home/you/newfile


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craig wrote:
> What's the method/proceedure for removing a boot daemon. I
> want to remove "sendmail" simply removing the package doesn't
> seem to do the trick. I guess I can short circute it by
> removing it from init.d but there a more complete method.

You didn't mention which distro but:

In RedHat:

# ntsysv
and remove the asterisk next to sendmail to stop it from being
started.

In Slackware:
Comment/remark the lines which refer to sendmail in /etc/rc.d/rc.M

# if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail ]; then
# . /etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail start
# fi

Then kill the daemon if it is running and remove the package.

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craig wrote:

> What's the method/proceedure for removing a boot daemon.
> I want to remove "sendmail"

No, you don't. You want to stop it running as a service. That is trivial.

1. Find out what its service status is:

# chkconfig --list sendmail

sendmail 0ff 1ff 2n 3n 4n 5n 6ff

2. Program it not to run in all active runlevels:

# chkconfig --level 2345 sendmail off

3. Stop the currently running daemon, if it is running:

# service sendmail stop

Done. Don't try to remove program files when turning them off is your actual
goal. You might want to reenable the program someday, and that would
require you to reinstall.

>
> simply removing the package doesn't seem to do the trick.

Simply removing the package is way overkill.

>
> I guess I can short circute it by removing it from init.d but there
> a more complete method.

A method like reading the documentation? Yes, there is.

# man chkconfig

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chkconfig got me up and over that one.
my 2000 "Linux desk reference" doesn't mention chkconfig
I didn't know it existed.

thanks
craig

craig wrote:

> chkconfig got me up and over that one.
> my 2000 "Linux desk reference" doesn't mention chkconfig
> I didn't know it existed.

Wow, what an omission. It is crucial to system configuration and control.
I'm glad you found out about it.

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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:57:06 -0700,
Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
> craig wrote:
>
> > chkconfig got me up and over that one.
> > my 2000 "Linux desk reference" doesn't mention chkconfig
> > I didn't know it existed.
>
> Wow, what an omission. It is crucial to system configuration and control.
> I'm glad you found out about it.
>
Pretty sure chkconfig is a RedHat utility, it may help you administer a
RH machine, but doesn't help much if it isn't available for your distro.
It's convenient, hardly crucial, and doesn't teach you much.

Michael C.
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Michael C. wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:57:06 -0700,
> Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
>> craig wrote:
>>
>> > chkconfig got me up and over that one.
>> > my 2000 "Linux desk reference" doesn't mention chkconfig
>> > I didn't know it existed.
>>
>> Wow, what an omission. It is crucial to system configuration and
>> control. I'm glad you found out about it.
>>
> Pretty sure chkconfig is a RedHat utility, it may help you administer a
> RH machine, but doesn't help much if it isn't available for your distro.
> It's convenient, hardly crucial, and doesn't teach you much.

There must be versions of this basic idea on each of the major
distributions. If not, it would be easy to write, because of what this
utility does. It manipulates the placement of file links in the /etc/rc.d
directory tree, the "wiring" of the init scheme.

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