sendmail daemon commands
The following commands or symbolic links produce the same results as the corresponding sendmail command line arguments or switches (described in
Table 1
).
Table 1. Supported command-line sendmail aliases
Name
Switch
Description
hoststat
-bh
Print persistent host status (V8.8 and above)
mailq
-bp
Print the queue contents
newaliases
-bi
Rebuild the
aliases
file
purgestat
-bH
Purge persistent host status (V8.8 and above)
smtpd
-bd
Run as a daemon
hoststat: Print persistent host status
mailq: Print the mail queue
newaliases: Rebuild the database for the mail aliases file
purgestat: Purge host status information
smtpd: Run sendmail in the background as a daemon
Parent topic:
Sending electronic mail using z/OS UNIX sendmail