Sendmail 8.12.3 warning with mailscanner

[Julian Field]

Did anyone try this out? Any progress on resolving this one?
RedHat are still only on sendmail-8.11 :(

At 21:55 01/07/2002, you wrote:
>RedHat have yet to produce RPMs for sendmail 8.12 :-(
>Can you try setting
>Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail >/dev/null 2>&1
>in your mailscanner.conf and then try it (just try pushing a clean text
>message through it)?
>
>Also, does this happen only when MailScanner and its sendmails are started
>on bootup, or does it occur if you stop and then start MailScanner from a
>window (and then leave the window open for the first few messages)?
>
>STDERR and STDIN certainly appear to be open, the only one that appears
>doubtful is STDOUT, though I never explicitly close any of them. Is there
>any documentation with sendmail 8.12 that might help diagnose this? Why
>does sendmail suddenly need these file descriptors anyway? It never used
>to :-(
>
>At 21:15 01/07/2002, you wrote:
>>I've just installed mailscanner with sendmail 8.12.2 and am seeing the
>>same warning, always generated by the sendmail instance used to deliver a
>>just-scanned message.
>>
>>Is mailscanner calling sendmail with closed standard file descriptors?
>>
>>brent emerson
>>techforpeople
>>
>>
>> > Date:         Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:03:25 -0700
>> > Reply-To:     MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> > Sender:       MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>> > From:         David Closson <davidclosson at MSN.COM>
>> > Subject:      Sendmail 8.12.3 warning with mailscanner
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>> >
>> > This warning was issued after setting up mailscanner:
>> >
>> > sendmail[9672]: File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr; Bad
>> > file descriptor
>> >
>> > I have read that this is caused if stdin, stdout, or stderr are missing
>> > at sendmail startup (as the error indicates).
>> >
>> > _________ Sincerely, David Closson 209-728-8199
>
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>Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
>jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
>Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
>                             Southampton SO17 1BJ

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ