sendmail wont die!!

[mike cunt]

I use interactive startup and disable sendmail from stating, But it continously keeps trying to start!! slowin me down!!
when i check the status of the system state it says sendmail is starting, I dont think I will ever use it so how do i kill it???

[mindwarp]

ps aux | grep sendmail

kill -KILL pid#

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Mindwarp

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"I'm born. I'm alive. I breathe. In a moment or two I realize, that the sphere, upon which I reside, is asleep on its feet. should I go back to sleep? We orbit the sun. I grow up. my open eyes see...A zombified, somnambulist society. Leaving us as vitamins for the hibernating human animal. Do you see what I mean?"

[njcajun]

Go to /etc/rc.d/rc3.d and do an 'ls'. There will be something there like 'S88sendmail'. The number (88) may be different, but the important part is the capital "S". Change it to a lower-case 's'. When you reboot again, sendmail shouldn't start.

You'll notice that the 'S##sendmail' file is a link to a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d - you can rename this file as a last resort, but remember what you do there in case you want to use it and have to change it back!

To kill it immediately, do the command in the above post.

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