sendmail-out.pid missing

[Kevin Miller]

I just installed 4.41.3 on a SuSE 9.3 system running sendmail.  It seems to
be working as advertised, but I get an error in /var/log/mail at startup:

May 17 11:58:21 mxg sendmail-in[7447]: starting daemon (8.13.3): SMTP
May 17 11:58:21 mxg sendmail-client[7450]: starting daemon (8.13.3):
persistent-queueing at 00:01:00
May 17 11:58:22 mxg sendmail-out[7454]: starting daemon (8.13.3):
queueing at 00:30:00
May 17 11:58:22 mxg sendmail-out[7454]: unable to write pid to
/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
May 17 11:58:23 mxg MailScanner[7475]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus Scanner
version 4.41.3 starting...


The sendmail.pid file is created, but the sendmail-out.pid file isn't and it
complains.  Doing a 'ps aux' I get the following:
--------------------------------------
root      7447  0.0  0.5   6676  2820 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections

mail      7450  0.0  0.4   5956  2348 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00 sendmail:
Queue control
mail      7451  0.0  0.4   5956  2396 ?        S    11:58   0:00 sendmail:
running queue: /var/spool/clientmqueue
root      7454  0.0  0.4   6168  2464 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00 sendmail:
Queue runner at 00:30:00 for /var/spool/mqueue
root      7474  0.0  3.4  20356 17500 ?        Ss   11:58   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root      7475  0.7  8.9  48528 45684 ?        S    11:58   0:11
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root      7481  1.0  9.0  48516 45768 ?        S    11:58   0:15
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root      7495  1.4  9.0  48880 46004 ?        R    11:58   0:21
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root      7553  1.1  9.0  48832 45956 ?        S    11:58   0:16
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
root      9693  0.0  0.6   6716  3456 ?        S    12:23   0:00 sendmail:
server imo-m26.mx.aol.com [64.12.137.7] cmd read

root      9756  0.0  9.0  48880 46004 ?        R    12:23   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner /usr/sbin/MailScanner
/etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
--------------------------------------

The first sendmail process (7447) is apparently the one started by the
/etc/init.d/MailScanner script:

mxg:/home/mkm # cat /var/run/sendmail.pid
7447
/usr/sbin/sendmail -OPrivacyOptions=noetrn -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in -L sendmail-in -Am -bd -om

I looked on an older MS box and see the same thing, although no error
message in the logs.  That is, sendmail-out apparently starts, but there is
no sendmail-out.pid created.

It seems that startproc isn't honoring the -p flag being passed in the
script.  Is anybody else seeing this?  Is it of any concern?

TIA...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500

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