sendmail-out.pid missing

[Julian Field]

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I must set up another SuSE system to use for testing this. What's the
latest version out there?

Kevin Miller wrote:

>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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