September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
10h 12m
English
Content preview from sendmail 8.13 Companion
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Useful Tables
There are two tables of interest for handling the
sendmail command line:
Table 15-1 shows the alternate names that
sendmailwill run under and the effect of each.Table 15-2 shows the command-line switches used by
sendmailand describes the effect of each.
Alternative argv[0] Names
The sendmail program can exist in any
of several places, depending on the
version of the operating system you are running. Usually, it is
located in the /usr/sbin directory and is called
sendmail,[21] but it can also be located in the
/etc, /usr/lib,
/usr/libexec, or /usr/etc
directories. The location of the sendmail
program can be found by examining the /etc/rc
files for BSD Unix or the /etc/init.d files for
Sys V Unix (§1.6.11[3ed]).
Also, on some BSD-derived systems, the
mailwrapper program and its
/etc/mail/mailer.conf file define where
sendmail is located.
In addition to the name sendmail, other names
(in other directories) can exist that alter the behavior of
sendmail. Those alternative names are usually
symbolic links to /usr/sbin/sendmail. On some
systems, they can be hard links, and in rare cases, you might
actually find them to be copies. The complete list of other names is
shown in Table 15-1.
Table 15-1. Alternative names for sendmail
|
Name |
sendmail text reference |
Mode of operation |
|---|---|---|
|
hoststat |
15.1.1[3ed] |
Print persistent host status (V8.8 and later) |
|
mailq |
15.1.2[3ed] |
Print the queue contents |
|
newaliases |
15.1.3[3ed] |
Rebuild the aliases file |
|
purgestat |
15.1.4[3ed] ... |
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