unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

James D. Parra Jamesp at MUSICREPORTS.COM
Wed Aug 3 01:19:09 IST 2005


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>You can add a -OPidFile=/var/run/sendmail.out.pid to the sendmail 
>command line for the outgoing sendmail queue runner.

>Thank you. I see the "PID file = /var/run/MailScanner.pid" in the
>MailScanner.conf, but can't find where to put the line you suggested.
>Can you point me in the right spot.

>After looking in /etc/init.d/rc3, I found the following in the MailScanner
>file;

>msppid=/var/spool/clientmqueue/sm-client.pid
>srvpid=/var/run/sendmail.pid
>srvoutpid=/var/run/sendmail-out.pid
>mspid=/var/run/MailScanner.pid

>Not sure where to put the "-OPidFile=/var/run/sendmail.out.pid" command.

Hello,

Found more oddities. After looking on another MailScanner system, Mandrake
9.1, found;

 ls /var/run/sendmail
sendmail.in.pid   sendmail.out.pid

However, in Suse 9.3 found this;

# ls /var/run/sendmail
     sendmail.pid

Very strange.

~James

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