Description of problem: This seems to be a generic systemd problem: systemd-adapted services assume themselves to always run when installed, whereas I just like to have service ready & around for reference, and do not want to run them all the time. (see my other filing on rpcbind also). In a nutshell, I found that doing systemctl disable sendmail.service systemctl stop sendmail.service removes the service files from /etc/....../multi.users.wants/ , but they are readded after a unsual yum upgrade. This is wrong and not like how it was with sysv (i.e.disable service is persistent across upgrade). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.14.5-14.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.systemctl disable sendmail.service systemctl stop sendmail.service 2. yum upgrade 3. reboot Actual results: sendmail runs again. Expected results: disabled services remain disabled. Additional info:
Same problem with F18 rawhide. But I don't know if it's a problem with update of sendmail or update of systemd.
I am afraid it is currently not possible. The service settings is updated during upgrades according to your alternatives settings (alternatives --config mta). You need to have one system MTA, that is always active e.g. to forward important system messages to admin. There is NO MTA effort: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA But AFAIK it is still not completed. The spec could be patched not to start the MTA if there is no MTA enabled. All MTAs would have to be patched (i.e. sendmail, postfix, exim).
The proposal makes sense. Moving to rawhide, because this change needs to be synchronized accross all MTAs.
Hi Just for info F18 rawhide Today there is an update for systemd. After reboot sendmail-service is not re-enable also I think that the problem is with sendmail package...
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