Puzzling maillog entries

[Julian Field]

You have 2 sendmail processes competing to provide SMTP service.
Make sure the original sendmail startup script is disable:
         chkconfig sendmail off
Then stop and start MailScanner:
         service MailScanner stop
         #Give it a few seconds to shut down gracefully
         ps ax
         #Check that there weren't any MailScanner or sendmail processes
left behind
         service MailScanner start

At 17:18 15/06/2003, you wrote:
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>I've been searching the archives and haven't yet found this.
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>I upgraded to 4.21-9 a week or so ago. I'm usgin RH8.0 with sendmail
>8.12.8 and spamassassin 2.44.
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>All "appears" to be working well other than two things.  The cpu load
>level is running at 70% on the average and that is 25-30% higher that
>last week prior to the upgrade.  In additional, I'm seeing this entry
>repeated in maillog:
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>Jun 15 10:05:36 cameron MailScanner[21518]: Using locktype = flock
>
>Jun 15 10:05:40 cameron sendmail[21470]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>
>Jun 15 10:05:40 cameron sendmail[21470]: daemon MTA: problem creating
>SMTP socket
>
>Jun 15 10:05:43 cameron MailScanner[21519]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>Scanner version 4.21-9 starting...
>
>Jun 15 10:05:45 cameron sendmail[21470]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>Jun 15 10:05:45 cameron sendmail[21470]: daemon MTA: problem creating
>SMTP socket
>.
>.
>until this occurs...
>.
>Jun 15 10:05:46 cameron MailScanner[21519]: Using locktype = flock
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>Jun 15 10:05:50 cameron sendmail[21470]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: cannot bind: Address already in use
>
>Jun 15 10:05:50 cameron sendmail[21470]: daemon MTA: problem creating
>SMTP socket
>
>Jun 15 10:05:50 cameron sendmail[21470]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
>opendaemonsocket: daemon MTA: server SMTP socket wedged: exiting
>
>Is MailScanner/sendmail working properly?
>
>Mike W
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