Sendmail startup problems

[Julian Field]

Check you have done
         chkconfig sendmail off
as well, or it will restart when you next boot.

At 14:52 18/02/2003, you wrote:
>(typo on list address; d'oh!)
>
>This happened to me also, and it was caused by extra sendmail
>processes.  on RH, issue a "service sendmail stop" and then "ps auxww
>|grep mail" and look for a running sendmail process.  Kill it and then
>issue a "service mailscanner start" which will start sendmail also.
>As far as the full pathname issue, I'm not sure off the top of my pointy
>head...
>
>--
>===========================
>Sean Closson
>sean at digisilk.net
>MCSE / MCDBA / GSEC / CISSP
>===========================
>
>On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 07:20, Mozzi wrote:
> > Hallo all
> > When starting up sendmail I get the following errors in my maillog file
> > I cannot explain them as it just worked
> > Espesially the ones between the arrows -->
> >
> > Tnx
> >
> > Mozzi
> >
> > NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address
> > already in use
> > Feb 18 15:15:03 darkstar sendmail[5980]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:15:08 darkstar sendmail[5980]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:15:08 darkstar sendmail[5980]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:15:13 darkstar sendmail[5980]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:15:13 darkstar sendmail[5980]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:15:18 darkstar sendmail[5980]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:15:18 darkstar sendmail[5980]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:15:23 darkstar sendmail[5980]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:15:23 darkstar sendmail[5980]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:15:23 darkstar sendmail[5980]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
> > --->
> > Feb 18 15:16:12 darkstar sendmail[6109]: daemon invoked without full
> pathname;
> > kill -1 won't work
> > Feb 18 15:16:12 darkstar sendmail[6110]: starting daemon (8.12.6):
> > SMTP+queueing at 00:15:00
> > Feb 18 15:16:15 darkstar sendmail[6112]: daemon invoked without full
> pathname;
> > kill -1 won't work
> > -->
> > Feb 18 15:16:15 darkstar sendmail[6113]: starting daemon (8.12.6): SMTP
> > Feb 18 15:16:15 darkstar sendmail[6113]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:16:15 darkstar sendmail[6113]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
> > Feb 18 15:16:20 darkstar sendmail[6113]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
> > opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
> > Feb 18 15:16:20 darkstar sendmail[6113]: daemon MTA: problem creating SMTP
> > socket
>
> >

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Julian Field
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