Unix Addiction

How to set sendmail in AIX Check if sendmail is running on the AIX Server     Run the following commands: #lssrc -s sendmail #ps -ef |grep sendmail Edit the sendmail.cf and you can add in the line DS #vi /etc/sendmail.cf Change: #DwYourHostName If the sendmail is not running you can start the service with the following command #startsrc -s sendmail -a "-bd -q30m" Validate that sendmail is running with a ps command #ps -ef |grep sendmail This should echo: root  5404     1   0 13:22:42      -  0:00 sendmail: accepting connections on port 25 - Ensure that the ‘sendmail’ daemon is started on reboot, comment in the ‘sendmail’ startup line in ‘/etc/rc.tcpip’ #vi /etc/rc.tcpip Comment in the following line: start /usr/lib/sendmail "$src_running" "-bd -q${qpi}" - Create an ‘/etc/netsvc.conf’ file, this is to tell sendmail to use ‘/etc/hosts’ for DNS #vi /etc/netsvc.conf Add the following: hosts=local,bind4 - Change t