From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029 Phoenix/0.4 Description of problem: /etc/sysconfig/sendmail sets a DAEMON var, to tell sendmail to start with -bd or not. /etc/init.d/sendmail doesn't use this var, so no matter what is set, sendmail uses -bd anyway. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHL 2. View /etc/init.d/sendmail Actual Results: DAEMON is not used. Expected Results: DAEMON value should be checked, and sendmail will be started using the right options. Additional info:
Created attachment 85148 [details] Patch file for /etc/init.d/sendmail to use $DAEMON correctly
It would be sufficient for the daemon line to be changed to the one from RedHat 7.3, viz: daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \ $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE)
http://people.redhat.com/laroche/sendmail-8.12.6-3 has this fixed. Can you please test if this works for you, otherwise open up a new bug-report? Thanks, Florian La Roche