unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

[James D. Parra]

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>(This time to the list, not only Steve:-)
>Um, why not try determine exactly what is keeping it open?
>fuser -u /var/run/sendmail.pid
>could be a start.

# fuser -u /var/run/sendmail.pid
/var/run/sendmail.pid: 27670(root)

# ps auxf |grep 27670
root     27670  0.0  0.5   6684  2724 ?        Ss   Aug01   0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections  

Scott mentioned that maybe the incoming and out going sendmail instances
were writing to the same pid. If this is correct, how can I fix it?

"Perhaps the two separate instances of Sendmail (incoming and outgoing)
are trying to write to the same pid.  Is there a way to make one of the
processes write to a different pid?"


Many thanks,

~James

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