sendmail: File descriptors missing on startup - 4.00.0a10-1

[Julian Field]

At 09:06 09/10/2002, you wrote:
>Over the past few days I have been trying out MailScanner on OpenBSD 3.1
>with f-prot and SpamAssassin, nice...
>I had to make a few minor changes to bin/check_mailscanner to account for
>OBSD ps and paths.
>However I've started to get the following in maillog after upgrading from
>4.00.0a9
>sendmail[14719]: File descriptors missing on startup: stdout, stderr; Bad
>file descriptor
>This is cropping up as MailScanner hands each message back to sendmail for
>delivery.

What happens if you change the definition of Sendmail2 to
         sendmail >/dev/null 2>&1
in the mailscanner.conf file?


>Other than that it is doing a fine job so more of an FYI as I expect I am
>out on a limb here...
>
>--
>Ant La Porte - Dvere Network Services

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