unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

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James D. Parra wrote:

>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 
>
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Your logs indicate otherwise. Try (I always get clobbered on this list 
when I say it :) ) "killall -9 sendmail; killall -9 MailScanner" and 
then start mailscanner again.

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