unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

[James D. Parra]

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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.

Still the same pesky error after stopping MailScanner and starting a fresh
instance;

 # killall -9 sendmail
sendmail: no process killed
 # killall -9 MailScanner
MailScanner: no process killed

 # rcMailScanner start
Initializing incoming sendmail                                        done
Initializing outgoing sendmail                                        done
Initializing MailScanner

Aug  1 16:45:35 postmaster sendmail-out[27681]: unable to write pid to
/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process

Noticed that "Initializing MailScanner" doesn't show "done", although I do
get the following;

 # ps auxf |grep MailScanner
root     27904  0.0  0.0   1564   392 pts/0    R+   16:48   0:00          \_
grep MailScanner
root     27696  0.0  3.6  20396 17636 ?        Ss   16:45   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     27697  1.5  7.0  36688 33984 ?        S    16:45   0:02  \_
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     27699  2.0  7.0  36648 33980 ?        S    16:45   0:02  \_
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     27700  2.2  7.0  36648 33980 ?        S    16:46   0:02  \_
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     27886  2.2  7.0  36648 33980 ?        S    16:46   0:02  \_
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root     27887  2.8  7.0  36672 33980 ?        S    16:46   0:02  \_
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
 # rcMailScanner status
Checking for service MailScanner:
running 


~James

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