unable to write pid to sendmail.pid

[Felix]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 14:16:03 -0700, James D. Parra 
<Jamesp at MUSICREPORTS.COM> wrote:

Hello,

is a solution for this error available?
The same error occurs on SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS.

The workaround to add the sendmail-out pid to the sendmail out
arg in mailscanner init script doesn't work on my system :-(.

The original sendmail start script from suse is attached.

Thank you,

Felix

>Hello,
>
>Whenever I start MailScanner I get the following error:
>
>MailScanner # cat /var/log/mail.err
>Jul 28 18:21:34  sendmail-out[12986]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>Jul 29 15:46:35  sendmail-out[5624]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>Aug  1 11:14:54  sendmail-out[25226]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>Aug  1 13:12:13  sendmail-out[25885]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>Aug  1 13:15:43  sendmail-out[26006]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>Aug  1 13:57:47  sendmail-out[26165]: unable to write pid to
>/var/run/sendmail.pid: file in use by another process
>
>No other application, outside of MailScanner starting sendmail, is 
running.
>
>Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>Thank you,
>
>James
>
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