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  • 1.  Cannot manage sendmail process with SRC

    Posted Thu September 29, 2022 06:26 AM
    I have installed sendmail (sendmail-8.17.1-2.aix6.1.ppc.rpm) from "AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software" on AIX.

    I would like to use SRC to manage the start and stop of this sendmail.
    However, as shown below, the SRC cannot detect the started sendmail process, so I cannot display the status (lssrc) or stop the process (stopsrc).

    Is it possible to manage sendmail with SRC?


    VERSION
    # oslevel -s
7200-05-04-2220

# /opt/freeware/sbin/sendmail -d0 < /dev/null
Version 8.17.1
 Compiled with: DANE DNSMAP HES_GETMAILHOST IPV6_FULL LDAPMAP
                LDAP_NETWORK_TIMEOUT LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8
                MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB=5.3 NIS
                PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF SOCKETMAP STARTTLS TLS_EC
                TLS_VRFY_PER_CTX USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT

    ADD TO SRC
    # mkssys -s sendmail.oss -p /opt/freeware/sbin/sendmail -G mail -u 0 -a "-bd -q15m" -O
0513-071 The sendmail.oss Subsystem has been added.

    START SENDMAIL
    # lssrc -s sendmail.oss
Subsystem         Group            PID          Status
 sendmail.oss     mail                          inoperative
# ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep
# startsrc -s sendmail.oss
0513-059 The sendmail.oss Subsystem has been started. Subsystem PID is 24117606.
# lssrc -s sendmail.oss
Subsystem         Group            PID          Status
 sendmail.oss     mail                          inoperative
# ps -ef | grep sendmail | grep -v grep
    root 18678230        1   0 15:11:41      -  0:00 sendmail: accepting connections
# stopsrc -s sendmail.oss
0513-004 The Subsystem or Group, sendmail.oss, is currently inoperative.

    Note: The status is "inoperative" after the process is started, but the sendmail process exists.



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    Ryota Kinashi
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  • 2.  RE: Cannot manage sendmail process with SRC

    Posted Thu September 29, 2022 07:16 AM
    If  i were you, i would stay with the aix provided sendmail until there is a VERY special reason to use the rpm.

    here is the aix standard src defintion for sendmail, maybe this helps.

    root@nimvie: /root # lssrc -Ss sendmail
#subsysname:synonym:cmdargs:path:uid:auditid:standin:standout:standerr:action:multi:contact:svrkey:svrmtype:priority:signorm:sigforce:display:waittime:grpname:
sendmail:::/usr/lib/sendmail:0:0:/dev/console:/dev/console:/dev/console:-R:-Q:-K:0:0:20:0:0:-d:20:mail:
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  • 3.  RE: Cannot manage sendmail process with SRC

    Posted Thu September 29, 2022 08:29 PM
    Thanks for your reply.
    I too would like to use sendmail provided by AIX. But unfortunately, I have to use sendmail that supports SASL & TLS on AIX 7.2, so I am forced to use rpm.

    * SASL support is available from AIX 7.3
    https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=118449

    For the rpm version, do you think it is better to start sendmail directly without SRC?

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