disable inbound mail for AIX 5.3

Tags

aix

Operating Systems AIX disable inbound mail for AIX 5.3

03-09-2009

Registered User

384, 2

Join Date: Oct 2007

Last Activity: 17 December 2017, 7:57 PM EST

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Posts: 384

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts

disable inbound mail for AIX 5.3

Hi All,

How do I disable inbound mail for AIX 5.3 server? I just need the outbound mail. It's using the native sendmail program.

Thank you!

itik

View Public Profile for itik

Find all posts by itik

03-11-2009

Registered User

384, 2

Join Date: Oct 2007

Last Activity: 17 December 2017, 7:57 PM EST

Location: Toronto, Ontario

Posts: 384

Thanks Given: 0

Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts

Just stop the sendmail process

stopsrc -s sendmail

edit /etc/rc.tcpip and remark sendmail to make it permanent on reboot.

Last edited by itik; 03-15-2009 at 04:18 AM..

itik

View Public Profile for itik

Find all posts by itik

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. AIX

Disable RBAC - AIX

Hi all, i have a little problem... I have a Trusted AIX v. 6.1 installed on my system p. I can't disable RBAC mode... $ lsattr -El sys0 -a enhanced_RBAC enhanced_RBAC true Enhanced RBAC Mode True $ chdev -l sys0 -a enhanced_RBAC=false Method error (/usr/lib/methods/chggen): 0514-018...

2. AIX

Allow telnet in AIX from specific IP adds, but disable for everyone else

I need to change the security on our AIX servers and disable telnet from all but certain IP addresses. I have hashed the telnet line in /etc/inetd.conf and added filter rules for those IP adds to allow access on port 23, but this didn't work. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

3. AIX

How to disable/remove c-shell in aix?

Hi Team, I want to either disable C-shell permanently from my system. since the package bos.rte.shell 5.3.9.2 APPLIED Shells (bsh, ksh, csh) contains all 3 shells, please guide me how I can remove or permanently disable cshell from my box. I know I can rename /usr/bin/csh and disable but...

4. AIX

Disable Banner Printing AIX ?

Can someone help me disable the banner printing in AIX 6 I am using HPjetDirect Drivers. SO whenever i print anything from Oracle application, a banner is printed. like the one below ######### User: alices@hostname ##### Title: /etc/release ##### Date: Fri 17:23 Mar 27, 2009 ##### ...

5. AIX

FTP access disable in AIX

Hello, I have AIX machine communication to mainframe machine. From AIX machine, i have to use always SSH communication. For this, i have created SSH tunnel in AIX machine and using FTP with SSH. Now both connections are working: 1) only FTP to mainframe machine 2) create SSH and do FTP...

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Disable root for AIX 5.2

I am able to disable direct root login through telnet. But when I add the rlogin = false into the /etc/security/user file. I am unable to log in as root from ssh. I uncommented the "PermitRootLogin yes" in the sshd_config file. Still can't log in. Can anyone help?

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Disable Outgoing Mail

I have a Solaris 2.6 server running sendmail (Version 8.9.3p2). It actually receives email and runs the sendmail process. I need to configure it so that it continues to receive email, but disable its ability to send email out. My initial ideas was to just rename the mail and mailx binaries. But...

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Processing inbound mail

Hi All Has anyone written any script that would listen for inbound mail and based on its subject process the body ? Thx J

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Disable Keyboard in AIX 5.2

Hi all. I have a log file that the operators monitor. This file is simply tailed -f on a screen in the ops room. I would like to know if there is anyway I can disable the keyboard from any input other than physically unpluging it. Something like a trap in the script. The system is AIX 5.2. ...

AIX