Sm-client.pid: permission error

[Julian Field]

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What OS and version are you using? What distribution of MailScanner are you
using?

At 16:55 21/10/2004, you wrote:
>I have the same situation - when i (for this test only) set chmod o+w
>/var/run  then i place a # on this line in /etc/init.d/MailScanner:
>chown $MSPUSER:$MSPGROUP /var/run/sm-client.pid 2>/dev/null
>and start /etc/init.d/MailScanner then sendmail creates sm-client.pid as
>follows:
>-rw------- mail mail
>
>If your sendmail tries to do the same then:
>/etc/init.d/MailScanner stop
>killall -9 sendmail
>chown mail:mail /var/run/sm-client.pid
>chmod 600 /var/run/sm-client.pid
>/etc/init.d/MailScanner start
>
>or/and change a line in /etc/init.d/MailScanner
>chown $MSPUSER:$MSPGROUP /var/run/sm-client.pid 2>/dev/null
>to this
>chown mail:mail /var/run/sm-client.pid 2>/dev/null
>and add this line just after previous one:
>chmod 600 /var/run/sm-client.pid

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