To disable sendmail and send mail

[vkostovic]

I am running Solaris 2.6 2.7 and 2.8.
Due to Sendmail Header Processing Buffer Overflow vulnerability I would like to disable/stop sendmail daemon. I do not have sendmail server.

Is it possible to send email if the sendmail daemon is stopped and if it is possible do I need to do any additional reconfiguration?

Thanks a lot.

 

[jad]

you don't need the sendmail daemon running ... if your configuration is set up to send the mail to any other machine.

vi/edit /etc/init.d/sendmail and comment out (with a #) the line that runs sendmail (i.e. :

/usr/lib/sendmail $MODE -q$QUEUEINTERVAL $OPTIONS &

that'll stop it running.

 

[vkostovic]

Thanks for replay.