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

[Julian Field]

At 14:25 09/10/2002, you wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
>MailScanner[20323]: Syntax error in line 82, file "sendmail" for sendmail2
>does not exist
>
>But after reverting to "Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/sendmail" and restarting I
>haven't seen the error appear again yet. In case I somehow messed
>something up while upgrading I'll clear it all out and start a fresh just
>to be on the safe side.

Sorry, I meant
         /usr/sbin/sendmail >/dev/null 2>&1
It's possible that it doesn't appear for the first few hours, but then
starts appearing after MailScanner has re-run itself (which it does to
prevent resource leaks).
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