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 6:09 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: unable to write pid to sendmail.pid
> 
> >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
> 
> Running Suse 9.3.
> 
> Ran the above commands after installing MailScanner. Reran them again at
> your suggestion.
> 
> # rcsendmail stop
> Shutting down SMTP port                                               done
> # chkconfig sendmail off
> # rcMailScanner restart
> Shutting down sendmail and MailScanner                                done
> Initializing incoming sendmail                                        done
> Initializing outgoing sendmail                                        done
> Initializing MailScanner
> # chkconfig MailScanner on
> 
> ...and yet I still get the following;
> 
> Aug  1 15:01:44 sendmail-out[26592]: unable to write pid to
> /var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
> 
> Very odd.
> 
> Any other clues?
> 
> Thank you, again.
> 
> ~James

Try running:

	/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
	/etc/init.d/MailScanner stop

Wait a minute or two, then run:

	killall sendmail

	service MailScanner start

Steve

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

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