Puzzling maillog entries

[Mike Watson]

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Thanks.  That appears to have taken care it.  Any idea why this only
appeared after upgrading from 4.12 to 4.21?

Mike W

On Sunday 15 June 2003 11:35 am, you wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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:
> >
> >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
> >
> >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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