HELP, need to disable Spamd

kyletaz · 11-21-2005, 02:24 PM

This is not going to be easy (although I hope I'm wrong).

I've been tasked with Disableing the Spamd and MailScanner software on a seerver that was setup be an employee that is no longer with the company and did little to no documantation on anything and none on this.

So my question is where should I be looking for configustion files that need changeing and the like. I would just nuke the box but it is also doing a couple other things.

any help would be great thanks.

acid_kewpie · 11-21-2005, 02:59 PM

why on earth would you think that that is remotely hard?!

just uninstall the packages... "rpm -e spamassassin" on an rpm based distro etc... alternatively if it is running as a seperate service just stop the service permanently using chkconfig or delete the symlink from /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or /etc/rc.d/rc5.d depedning on your runlevel.

note i can give specific details as you've not told us what distro you are even using... we're not psychic.

kyletaz · 11-21-2005, 03:03 PM

Sorry about the vague post in the first place, it is redhat and I don't have many details as I didn't build the box.

As for uninstalling it, that might be the road I take but I was hope I could just disable it for a month or so to make sure our replacement works as intended.

Now that I think of it though I think I will just remove it so if we need it back I can build it myself and do it right and document it.

thanks for the help.

acid_kewpie · 11-21-2005, 04:44 PM

so on redhat run "chkconfig spamd off" and that'll stop it loading automatically, assuming that the service is called spamd. it's name can change a bit, might actually be called "spamassassin" or such like. similar for the other service.

kyletaz · 11-22-2005, 11:28 AM

Thanks, but I tried "chkconfig spamd off" and it didn't work, got

bash: chkconfig: command not found

my uname info is Linux ******************* 2.4.21-20.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:46:40 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

is there an other comand for this? I can't monkey around to much as this is the email gateway machine for the entire company

Everytime I need to work on this box I want to throttle the guy that set it up and never documented a thing!!

kyletaz · 11-22-2005, 12:30 PM

NM, what a tool, needed to use the full path to run it.

thanks for the help guys, we will be testing this on friday as we don't know if this will bring down email for the company

acid_kewpie · 11-22-2005, 02:42 PM

in reality, i'd assume you were not su-ing correctly so weren't fully logged in as root. if you open a terminal, run "su -" and then run it, it'll work fine, without that dash it won't load the su'd users full profile, including path details.

kyletaz · 11-22-2005, 02:45 PM

Probably what it was, I was sshed to it as it is in the server room and usually just su works fine.

thanks again for the help.

been to long since my Linux training