server sending out spam, how to disable exim completely?

[lkbryant]

hi

how can i disable just the exim service completely?
i don't really use mail services on this box so i don't need it at all.

i tried service exim stop and chkconfig exim off but obviously i'm missing something here.

please help, thanks.

 

[nobaloney]

Turning off the daemon doesn't stop other programs from calling exim.

You can rename the exim executable, for example, to exim.off.

Jeff

 

[scsi]

If you stop exim from directadmin it will not auto restart. It will update /usr/local/directadmin/admin/services.status to exim=OFF so that it wont try to restart it. But you should also probably chmod 0 /etc/init.d/exim

I dont know if there is an official way to disable it or not.

You could check http://help.directadmin.com or http://directadmin.com/versions.php

 

[nobaloney]

The reason we disable exim completely by renaming it rather than by chmodding it is to allow us to easily search for all disabled software by doing a find on *.off.

Jeff