Bug 18382

Summary:	sendmail by default starts on workstation setups
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Conan Ford <conanford>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	dr, panu.matilainen
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Conan Ford 2000-10-05 07:07:31 UTC

For a KDE or GNOME workstation setup, sendmail starts automatically on 
bootup.  This is a potential issue if a security problem is found in the 
future.  I can understand it being started by default for a Server setup, 
but why workstation?  Does not sendmail require configuration to work 
properly?  Then why not wait until after it has been configured before 
enabling the daemon.

Comment 1 panu.matilainen 2000-11-13 15:24:52 UTC

Just noticed this today.. Basically it's nice to have it running to be able to
*send* mail through it but it's not supposed to start it in daemon mode on
workstation installations, see your /etc/sysconfig/sendmail, it says:
DAEMON=no
..but the initscript still starts it as a daemon. The following patch fixes it.

--- sendmail.orig	Mon Nov 13 17:24:27 2000
+++ sendmail	Mon Nov 13 17:24:44 2000
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
 		makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
 	    fi
 	done
-	daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
-                                  $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
+	action "" /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \
+                                     $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
 	RETVAL=$?
 	echo
 	[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/sendmail

Comment 2 Florian La Roche 2001-01-04 13:24:39 UTC

daemon mode from sendmail does not have to do with how it is started
from the initscripts functions

Comment 3 panu.matilainen 2001-01-04 13:57:13 UTC

Well yes my "fix" is wrong but it doesn't change the fact that sendmail gets
started in daemon mode when it shouldn't.