Growing sendmail proccesses

[Julian Field]

Don't worry about the clientmqueue, you need that on very recent sendmails.
Its job is to catch mail created by you directly invoking the "sendmail"
binary to send a message. It moves the message into the incoming queue
causing it to be processed correctly.
It's a sendmail thing, not a MailScanner thing basically.

At 06:48 07/10/2003, you wrote:
>I'm getting an additional queue runner on start and restart,  with
>/var/spool/clientmqueue as the queue.   The only cf file that references
>clientmqueue is the submit.cf -- this started a version or two ago...  now
>running 4.24-5   <-- What have I broken   Where is MailScanner
>starting/restarting with submit.cf if that's whats in fact causing this ?
>
>MailScanner and everything else works perfectly,  but I can't seem to train
>the other boys here to do a stop, killall sendmail, start.  It's PID file
>does not exist in the
>
>Redhat 9
>MailScanner 4.24-5
>SA 2.6
>Sendmail 8.12.8, recompiled with SASL/AUTH support
>Using separate sendmail_in.cf in /etc/init.d/MailScanner to split messages
>to multiple recipients to singlers, included at very bottom.
>
>
>Capture below Begins Directly after a fresh  /etc/init.d/Mailscanner stop,
>killall sendmail,  /etc/init.d/MailScanner start :
>
>[root at MailGW unit.d]# ps aSux | grep sendmail
>root     12259  0.0  0.2  5964 2508 ?        S    00:21   0:00 sendmail:
>accepting connections
>smmsp    12264  0.0  0.2  5752 2260 ?        S    00:21   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>root     12270  0.0  0.2  5856 2368 ?        S    00:21   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>root     12373  0.0  0.0  3576  644 pts/0    S    00:25   0:00 grep sendmail
>[root at MailGW init.d]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>[root at MailGW init.d]# ps aSux | grep sendmail
>smmsp    12264  0.0  0.2  5752 2260 ?        S    00:21   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>root     12425  0.1  0.2  5968 2532 ?        S    00:26   0:00 sendmail:
>accepting connections
>smmsp    12430  0.0  0.2  5756 2264 ?        S    00:26   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>root     12436  0.0  0.2  5860 2372 ?        S    00:26   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>root     12469  0.0  0.0   208  112 pts/0    R    00:26   0:00 grep sendmail
>[root at MailGW init.d]# /etc/init.d/MailScanner restart
>Shutting down MailScanner daemons:
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>Starting MailScanner daemons:
>          incoming sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          outgoing sendmail: [  OK  ]
>          MailScanner:       [  OK  ]
>[root at MailGW init.d]# ps aSux | grep sendmail
>smmsp    12264  0.0  0.2  5752 2260 ?        S    00:21   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>smmsp    12430  0.0  0.2  5756 2264 ?        S    00:26   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>root     12534  0.0  0.2  5964 2508 ?        S    00:27   0:00 sendmail:
>accepting connections
>smmsp    12539  0.0  0.2  5752 2256 ?        S    00:27   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
>root     12545  0.0  0.2  5856 2368 ?        S    00:27   0:00 sendmail:
>Queue runner at 00:15:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
>root     12569  0.0  0.0  1456  280 pts/0    R    00:27   0:00 grep sendmail
>[root at MailGW init.d]#
>--- end of capture
>
>
> >From /etc/mail
>   [root at MailGW mail]# grep clientmqueue *
>   submit.cf:O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/clientmqueue
>   submit.cf:O StatusFile=/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.st
>   submit.cf:O PidFile=/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
>
>
>from /etc/init.d
>   [root at MailGW init.d]# grep submit.cf *
>   [root at MailGW init.d]#
>   nothing references submit.cf
>
>sendmail start section from /etc/init.d/MailScanner
><!-- snip --->
>       elif [ $MTA = 'sendmail' ]; then
>         /usr/bin/newaliases > /dev/null 2>&1
>         if test -x /usr/bin/make -a -f /etc/mail/Makefile ; then
>             make -C /etc/mail -s
>         else
>             for i in virtusertable access domaintable mailertable ; do
>                 if [ -f /etc/mail/$i ] ; then
>                     makemap hash /etc/mail/$i < /etc/mail/$i
>                 fi
>             done
>         fi
>         $SENDMAIL -bd -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn \
>                       -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \
>                       -OQueueDirectory=$INQDIR \
>                       -OPidFile=$INPID \
>                       -C/etc/mail/sendmail_in.cf       <--- only change here
>         touch /var/run/sm-client.pid
>         chown smmsp:smmsp /var/run/sm-client.pid 2>/dev/null
>         $SENDMAIL -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m 2>/dev/null
>         success
>         echo
><!--- snip ---->

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Julian Field
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