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Bug 56117

Summary:	Sendmail should not be run as daemon by default
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pavel Roskin <plroskin>
Component:	sendmail	Assignee:	Florian La Roche <laroche>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.2	Keywords:	Security
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Description Pavel Roskin 2001-11-12 23:11:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
Sendmail is run on runlevels 2-5 by default.  It's not a good idea to run
an unconfigured MTA by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -i sendmail-8.11.6-3.i386.rpm
2. chkconfig --list sendmail


Actual Results:  sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on   
5:on    6:off


Expected Results:  sendmail        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off  
5:off   6:off


Additional info:

The default runlevels are set in /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
Instead of

# chkconfig: 2345 80 30

use

# chkconfig: - 80 30

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-11-13 18:04:05 UTC

Too many things require it.