Bug 436359

Summary: [patch] Use chkconfig to configure selected MTA to start automatically
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dax Kelson <dkelson>
Component: system-switch-mailAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Patch to add chkconfig use to system-switch-mail none

Description Dax Kelson 2008-03-06 19:09:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
I teach Linux classes and I notice a very common stumbling block for students
that use system-switch-mail. They think (appropriately) that system-switch-mail
handles all the changes for them, and so they never run the chkconfig commands
to turn on the selected MTA and off the unselected MTAs.

I'm attaching a patch to this bug report that adds chkconfig support to
system-switch-mail so that it truly does to all the steps required to switch
between MTAs.

I have tested it and it works:

Here is the output of the test:

STARTING POINT:
[root@mentorng ~]# chkconfig --list sendmail ; chkconfig --list postfix ;
chkconfig --list exim
sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
exim            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

run system-switch-mail and choose sendmail:

sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
exim            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

run system-switch-mail and choose postfix:

sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
exim            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

run system-switch-mail and choose exim:

sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
exim            0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

run system-switch-mail and choose sendmail:

sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off
postfix         0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off
exim            0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

Please apply this patch.
Comment 1 Dax Kelson 2008-03-06 19:09:13 UTC 
Created attachment 297087 [details]
Patch to add chkconfig use to system-switch-mail
Comment 2 Dax Kelson 2008-03-06 20:16:24 UTC 
It would be great if this can get in before the March 11th freeze.
Comment 3 Than Ngo 2008-03-07 16:57:02 UTC 
it's fixed in 0.5.26-1. Thanks
Comment 4 Dax Kelson 2008-03-15 05:10:06 UTC 
Please fix for RHEL5.3 as well.
Comment 5 Than Ngo 2008-03-17 12:42:38 UTC 
it's the bug against rawhide. Please don't reopen it since there's someone 
already reported this issue against RHEL-5.x.

Thanks