From: Raj Atwal (tatwal@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 07:50:57 EST
Yup, this is the way I have done it in the past. I had
a problem once where I needed to deactive mail on aix,
so I copied the sendmail program to a another file,
then created my own sendmail file, that was a 1 line
script which simply did nothing but ensured it
returned a return code of 0.
HTH
Raj Atwal
--- Klaus Oberle <Klaus.Oberle@LINDE-MH.DE> wrote:
> One VERY simple way is to rename the binaries
> temporarily.
>
> e.g.
> /usr/bin/ftp => /usr/bin/ftp.deactivated
> /usr/bin/mail => /usr/bin/mail.deactivated
>
> /klaus
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Klaus Oberle
> IT Administration
> Linde Material Handling
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> www.linde.com
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> I've got a Disaster Recovery test coming up soon,
> and our customer wants to
> run some work in order to check performance.
>
> In order to prevent this from interfering with the
> real production systems
> -
> all of these systems are on the same network - I
> need to disable outgoing
> FTP and email from some of the DR systems.
>
> What is the simplest way of doing this?
>
> At the moment, I'm thinking of commenting out ftp in
> /etc/inetd.conf, and
> removing /etc/sendmail.cf.
>
> Any reason that won't work? Any neater solutions?
>
> Simon Green
> Altria ITSC Europe s.a.r.l.
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Raj Atwal
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Braegen Group Inc.
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