From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: In the /etc/init.d/sendmail, the script does not use the "DAEMON" varible when starting the sendmail daemon: daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd / To me, this would suggest that the "-bd" would be used regardless of the value of DAEMON. The result is that the value of DAEMON in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail never gets used, and sendmail always run in DAEMON "mode". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (n/a) Actual Results: Sendmail always runs with "-bd" invoked. Expected Results: The script should read the DAEMON variable (from /etc/sysconfig/sendmail) and apply it appropriately. something like this: daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail $([ "$DAEMON" = yes ] && echo -bd) \ $([ -n "$QUEUE" ] && echo -q$QUEUE) Additional info:
http://people.redhat.com/laroche/sendmail-8.12.6-3 has this fixed. Please reopen if that does not work for you. greetings, Florian La Roche