unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of James D. Parra
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 5:16 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: unable to write pid to sendmail.pid
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Whenever I start MailScanner I get the following error:
> 
> MailScanner # cat /var/log/mail.err
> Jul 28 18:21:34  sendmail-out[12986]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> Jul 29 15:46:35  sendmail-out[5624]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> Aug  1 11:14:54  sendmail-out[25226]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> Aug  1 13:12:13  sendmail-out[25885]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> Aug  1 13:15:43  sendmail-out[26006]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> Aug  1 13:57:47  sendmail-out[26165]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> 
> No other application, outside of MailScanner starting sendmail, is
> running.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> James

I'm pretty sure that this is in the MAQ but what's happening is that when
you try to start Sendmail - It's already running. You don't say what OS you
are running so I can only tell you the processes, not the commands. Also the
init processes are a bit different if you're running Debian, Solaris or
FreeBSD

1. Make sure that sendmail is not running or (for linix) started by an init
script. 

2. Restart MailScanner 

3. Make sure that MailScanner is started by a init script.

If you're running Red Hat Linux or a Red Hat variant (CentOS) the command
would be:

	service sendmail stop
	chkconfig sendmail off
	service MailScanner restart
	chkconfig MailScanner on

Steve

Stephen Swaney
Fort Systems Ltd.
stephen.swaney at fsl.com
www.fsl.com

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